Madeline Plains -- Cataloging Unit 18080002

• North Lahontan Subregion 1808
  
• California Region 18 (There are 135 cataloging units in this region.)
  The state composition by area is 95.2% California, 4.8% Nevada.
  

  I. Graphical Locater Maps

  Roads

  Water Only

  8 Digit HUCs

  The area of this HUC in these maps is 2159.8 km² ( 834.2 mi² ) [% in USA = 24.49, % in Region = 51.11]
  The area from the USGS is 835 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 243)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 863411 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 1759.1 m ( 5771.3 ft ) [% in USA = 88.92, % in Region = 94.81]
  The elevation standard deviation is 144.4 m ( 473.7 ft ) [% in USA = 63.52, % in Region = 13.33]
  The coefficient of variation is 8.2 %.
  The vertical relief is 1134.6 m ( 3722.4 ft ) [% in USA = 68.78, % in Region = 25.19]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	1464.7	1615.0	1631.5	1646.0	1678.6	1723.1	1768.0	1826.0	1880.4	1953.1	2599.3
  feet	4805.4	5298.5	5352.6	5400.2	5507.2	5653.1	5800.5	5990.7	6169.2	6407.7	8527.8

  

  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	90.3	56.1	0.042	0.067	32.26	36.30
  Intermittent Shoreline	12.1	7.5	0.006	0.009	78.35	74.81
  Perennial Streams	80.6	50.1	0.037	0.060	14.31	11.85
  Intermittent Streams	655.5	407.4	0.303	0.488	45.48	48.89
  Canals	106.0	65.9	0.049	0.079	84.75	79.26
  1° roads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	30.84	40.00
  2° roads	49.6	30.8	0.023	0.037	46.00	94.07
  3° roads	21.4	13.3	0.010	0.016	11.23	11.11
  4° roads	1339.6	832.5	0.620	0.998	12.60	12.59
  Total Roads	1410.5	876.7	0.653	1.051	12.08	12.59
  Railroads	56.2	34.9	0.026	0.042	35.10	51.11
  Pipes and Powerlines	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	8.67	11.11

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 79.62% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 78.02, % in Region = 84.44]

  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