National Historical Park · usa
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
- Area
- 56 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
Overview
- Designation
- National Historical Park
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
0 - Managing authority
- National Park Service ; County Land ; Regional Agency Land
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
313 distinct species · 1 389 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Chesapeake and Ohio Canal : 40 espèces reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology18 basins · 1 lakes · 31 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
72,0km
Lake surface here
0,32km²
Basins crossed
18
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
30 317km²
Discharge in basins
29,0m³/s
Mean precip.
979mm/an
Mean T°
11,2°C
Moisture idx
-0,12
Max snow
6%
Mean runoff
410mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
216m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Goose Creeksub-area2 595,4 km²overlap12.13 km²22%
- Bassin de Potomac Riversub-area1 354,9 km²overlap8.90 km²16%
- Bassin de Licking Creeksub-area1 503 km²overlap6.44 km²12%
- Bassin de Catoctin Creeksub-area849,8 km²overlap5.79 km²10%
- Bassin de Potomac Riversub-area174,7 km²overlap4.90 km²9%
- Bassin de Potomac Riversub-area240,3 km²overlap4.77 km²9%
- Bassin de North Branch Potomac Riversub-area163,1 km²overlap4.13 km²7%
- Bassin de Potomac Riversub-area100,6 km²overlap3.99 km²7%
- Bassin de Potomac Riversub-area58,8 km²overlap1.81 km²3%
9 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de North Branch Potomac Riversub-area63,9 km²overlap1.20 km²2%
- Bassin de Monocacy Riversub-area2 571,8 km²overlap0.61 km²1%
- Bassin de North Branch Potomac Riversub-area9,2 km²overlap0.39 km²1%
- Bassin de Antietam Creeksub-area749,2 km²overlap0.24 km²0%
- Bassin de Conococheague Creeksub-area1 504,7 km²overlap0.08 km²0%
- Bassin de Patterson Creeksub-area727,7 km²overlap0.06 km²0%
- Bassin de Wills Creeksub-area662,6 km²overlap0.05 km²0%
- Bassin de Evitts Creeksub-area245,3 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
- Bassin de South Branch Potomac Riversub-area768,6 km²overlap0.00 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (31, ord ≥ 4)
- Potomac Riverord 6len here45.10 km14%total323 km
- North Branch Potomac Riverord 5len here10.02 km5%total195 km
- Chesapeake and Ohio Canalord 6len here5.88 km14%total42 km
- Broad Runord 6len here2.90 km5%total57 km
- Sideling Hill Creekord 6len here1.64 km3%total48 km
- Goose Creekord 6len here1.08 km1%total93 km
- Licking Creekord 6len here0.87 km1%total90 km
- Tonoloway Creekord 6len here0.75 km3%total22 km
- Mill Runord 2len here0.60 km3%total19 km
- Little Monocacy Riverord 1len here0.46 km4%total11 km
- Catoctin Creekord 3len here0.34 km0%total74 km
- Furnace Branchord 4len here0.32 km4%total8 km
19 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Antietam Creekord 3len here0.30 km1%total44 km
- Town Creekord 3len here0.28 km1%total53 km
- Willett Branchord 1len here0.27 km7%total4 km
- Little Catoctin Creekord 1len here0.18 km1%total13 km
- Purslane Runord 1len here0.16 km5%total3 km
- Cabin John Creekord 2len here0.14 km4%total3 km
- Clark's Runord 1len here0.14 km4%total4 km
- Little Tonoloway Creekord 3len here0.12 km0%total25 km
- Seneca Creekord 3len here0.12 km0%total49 km
- Collier Runord 5len here0.09 km1%total10 km
- Horsepen Branchord 1len here0.07 km2%total4 km
- Marsh Runord 2len here0.07 km0%total16 km
- Fifteenmile Creekord 2len here0.03 km0%total28 km
- Rock Creekord 3len here0.03 km0%total28 km
- Washington Runord 1len here0.03 km4%total1 km
- Wills Creekord 4len here0.01 km0%total72 km
- Green Spring Runord 1len here≈ tangenttotal8 km
- Little Falls Branchord 6len here≈ tangenttotal1 km
- Opequon Creekord 3len here≈ tangenttotal157 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 39.51850, -77.85456
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.