HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080394760
Bassin de Rock Creek
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Burnett, Chisago, Pine
Sub-basin area
249,6km²
Upstream area
13 961,8km²
Discharge
118,59m³/s
Mean elev.
276m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wood River468 km²
- Bassin de Saint Croix River26 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 167.2 km²66.8% of basin
- 55.2 km²22.1% of basin
- 27.8 km²11.1% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Fish Lake
IUCN VWildlife Area
16.71 km² overlap
Scenic
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
3.60 km² overlap
Rock Marsh
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
2.52 km² overlap
Saint Croix
IUCN VNational Scenic Riverway
2.18 km² overlap
Scenic
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
2.13 km² overlap
Saint Croix
IUCN VNational Scenic Riverway
2.12 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
1.16 km² overlap
St. Croix
IUCN VNational Scenic Riverway
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
860 distinct species · 23 137 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Bassin de Rock Creek : 27 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
5,3°C
Annual rain
765mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
275mm/an
PET
893mm
AET
647mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
27cm
Forest
58%
Crops
22%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)