South Fork Kern -- Cataloging Unit 18030002

• Tulare-Buena Vista Lakes Subregion 1803
  
• California Region 18 (There are 135 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 100.0% California.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2532.4 km² ( 978.2 mi² ) [% in USA = 34.96, % in Region = 59.26]
  The area from the USGS is 964 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 489)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1011268 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 1956.3 m ( 6418.2 ft ) [% in USA = 93.04, % in Region = 96.30]
  The elevation standard deviation is 589.9 m ( 1935.3 ft ) [% in USA = 98.53, % in Region = 85.93]
  The coefficient of variation is 30.2 %.
  The vertical relief is 2865.8 m ( 9402.1 ft ) [% in USA = 98.06, % in Region = 84.44]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	792.0	1068.3	1371.0	1646.8	1854.2	2012.0	2161.1	2327.7	2499.0	2683.3	3657.8
  feet	2598.4	3504.9	4498.0	5402.8	6083.3	6601.0	7090.1	7636.7	8198.7	8803.4	12000.5

  

  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	23.3	14.5	0.009	0.015	11.80	12.59
  Intermittent Shoreline	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	26.95	33.33
  Perennial Streams	391.1	243.1	0.154	0.249	32.92	26.67
  Intermittent Streams	1351.2	839.8	0.534	0.858	73.52	74.81
  Canals	12.1	7.5	0.005	0.008	58.08	42.96
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	40.00
  2° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	15.35	73.33
  3° roads	51.9	32.3	0.021	0.033	22.31	25.19
  4° roads	1049.0	652.0	0.414	0.667	4.45	5.93
  Total Roads	1101.0	684.3	0.435	0.700	4.26	5.93
  Railroads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	12.60	30.37
  Pipes and Powerlines	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	8.67	11.11

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 76.53% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 75.75, % in Region = 82.22]

  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