Panamint Valley -- Cataloging Unit 18090204

• Northern Mojave Accounting Unit 180902
  
• Northern Mojave-Mono Lake Subregion 1809
  
• 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 4241.1 km² ( 1638.2 mi² ) [% in USA = 68.55, % in Region = 84.44]
  The area from the USGS is 1600 mi².
  

  II. Flow Connections (upstream and downstream units)

  III. Named places in this watershed (total = 348)

  IV. Elevation Analysis

  This analysis is based on 1693458 elevations on a 50 m grid within the area of this HUC.
  The mean elevation is 1173.5 m ( 3850.0 ft ) [% in USA = 76.03, % in Region = 72.59]
  The elevation standard deviation is 558.0 m ( 1830.7 ft ) [% in USA = 98.01, % in Region = 83.70]
  The coefficient of variation is 47.6 %.
  The vertical relief is 3056.9 m ( 10029.1 ft ) [% in USA = 98.53, % in Region = 86.67]

  Elevation Percentiles

  	0 %	10 %	20 %	30 %	40 %	50 %	60 %	70 %	80 %	90 %	100 %
  meters	297.3	485.4	628.3	760.6	936.9	1099.6	1323.1	1541.3	1720.4	1909.9	3354.2
  feet	975.4	1592.5	2061.3	2495.4	3073.8	3607.6	4340.8	5056.7	5644.3	6266.0	11004.5

  

  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	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	0.99	1.48
  Intermittent Shoreline	83.5	51.9	0.020	0.032	91.66	88.89
  Perennial Streams	27.9	17.4	0.007	0.011	6.11	6.67
  Intermittent Streams	2805.4	1743.6	0.661	1.064	85.13	87.41
  Canals	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	35.62	25.19
  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	51.5	32.0	0.012	0.020	12.93	11.85
  4° roads	1557.6	968.0	0.367	0.591	3.13	5.19
  Total Roads	1609.1	1000.0	0.379	0.610	2.84	5.19
  Railroads	0.0	0.0	0.000	0.000	12.60	30.37
  Pipes and Powerlines	1.3	0.8	0.000	0.000	9.66	13.33

  
  Of the natural water in this HUC, 99.04% (by length) is intermittent [% in USA = 97.35, % in Region = 97.04]

  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