HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080430830
Bassin de Belle Fourche 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 3 administrative regions : Butte, Lawrence, Meade
Sub-basin area
2 316,4km²
Upstream area
16 558,3km²
Discharge
35,92m³/s
Mean elev.
928m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Owl Creek1652 km²
- Bassin de Indian Creek1337 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Meade1562.6 km²67.3% of basin
- Butte593.6 km²25.6% of basin
- Lawrence165.0 km²7.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Bear Butte Lake
IUCN VRecreation Area
6.27 km² overlap
Lake
3.27 km² overlap
State Wildlife Management Area
2.27 km² overlap
Bear Butte
IUCN VNational Wildlife Refuge
1.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 394 distinct species · 23 941 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Belle Fourche River : 22 espèces reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 20.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
7,9°C
Annual rain
455mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
82mm/an
PET
1 025mm
AET
393mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
291cm
Forest
10%
Crops
24%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)