HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080395870
Bassin de Ford River
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 6 administrative regions : Delta, Dickinson, Iron, Lake Michigan, Marquette +1
Sub-basin area
1 414,6km²
Upstream area
1 414,7km²
Discharge
11,7m³/s
Mean elev.
305m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Dickinson482.9 km²34.1% of basin
- 321.2 km²22.7% of basin
- 311.5 km²22.0% of basin
- 163.9 km²11.6% of basin
- Lake Michigan123.8 km²8.7% of basin
- 14.7 km²1.0% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
State Forest
285.97 km² overlap
State Forest
47.76 km² overlap
Gwinn State Forest Area
IUCN VState Forest
15.28 km² overlap
MNRTF Parcel 94
IUCN VConservation Area
2.57 km² overlap
MNRTF Parcel 148
IUCN VConservation Area
0.66 km² overlap
Portage Mars
IUCN VWildlife Habitat Management Area
0.28 km² overlap
MNRTF Parcel
IUCN VConservation Area
0.16 km² overlap
Portage Marsh
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.16 km² overlap
01-21-0014
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.08 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Township
IUCN VNatural Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 101 distinct species · 18 528 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Ford River : 23 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.9%, 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°
4,7°C
Annual rain
787mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
274mm/an
PET
816mm
AET
631mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
54cm
Forest
87%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)