Lower Rogue -- Cataloging Unit 17100310

• Southern Oregon Coastal Accounting Unit 171003
  
• Oregon-Washington Coastal Subregion 1710
  
• Pacific Northwest Region 17 (There are 219 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% Oregon.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2323.8 km² ( 897.6 mi² ) [% in USA = 28.85, % in Region = 34.70]
  The area from the USGS is 898 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 1398)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 927992 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 603.7 m ( 1980.6 ft ) [% in USA = 61.01, % in Region = 21.92]
  The elevation standard deviation is 278.8 m ( 914.7 ft ) [% in USA = 80.39, % in Region = 40.64]
  The coefficient of variation is 46.2 %.
  The vertical relief is 1584.1 m ( 5197.1 ft ) [% in USA = 78.21, % in Region = 38.81]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	0.0	268.4	355.9	426.2	500.7	584.7	665.9	755.9	858.2	979.6	1584.1
  feet	0.0	880.6	1167.6	1398.3	1642.7	1918.3	2184.7	2480.0	2815.6	3213.9	5197.1

  

  V. Map Line Analysis

  Note- percentiles are for the feature density, not for the raw total lengths.
  

  line type	km	mi	km/km²	mi/mi²	% in USA	% in Region
  Perennial Shoreline	216.2	134.4	0.093	0.150	53.20	65.30
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	43.84
  Perennial Streams	1361.6	846.2	0.586	0.943	90.24	73.97
  Intermittent Streams	29.9	18.6	0.013	0.021	7.48	6.85
  Canals	4.4	2.7	0.002	0.003	50.17	39.27
  1° roads	33.5	20.8	0.014	0.023	61.87	80.37
  2° roads	2.6	1.6	0.001	0.002	16.96	33.33
  3° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	4.07	15.53
  4° roads	3020.7	1877.4	1.300	2.092	64.28	73.52
  Total Roads	3056.8	1899.8	1.315	2.117	53.01	71.23
  Railroads	45.5	28.3	0.020	0.032	29.70	49.77
  Pipes and Powerlines	35.6	22.1	0.015	0.025	31.74	41.10

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 1.86% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 6.87, % in Region = 6.85]

  VI. Other sites

  • EPA- Surf Your Watershed - Index of Watershed Indicators
  • USGS- Science in Your Watershed - Selected Realtime Streamflow Stations
  • CTIC- Known Your Watershed

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  1999 SEPT 4, Last updated on 2003 JAN 23
  
  D.L. Gustafson, dlg@rapid.msu.montana.edu