HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080431710

Bassin de Medicine Knoll 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 6 administrative regions : Faulk, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Potter +1

6% lakePfafstetter: 74295960

Sub-basin area

2 207,3km²

Upstream area

2 207,3km²

Discharge

4,97m³/s

Mean elev.

546m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Missouri River1554 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Sully
South Dakota · United States
859.3 km²
38.8% of basin
Hyde
South Dakota · United States
658.8 km²
29.8% of basin
Hughes
South Dakota · United States
590.4 km²
26.7% of basin
Faulk
South Dakota · United States
91.9 km²
4.2% of basin
Hand
South Dakota · United States
9.7 km²
0.4% of basin
Potter
South Dakota · United States
2.0 km²
0.1% of basin

19 intersecting protected areas

Hyde County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
91.07 km² overlap
Faulk County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
27.79 km² overlap
Sully County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
15.21 km² overlap
Hughes County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
8.94 km² overlap
R Leesman
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
6.51 km² overlap
H Smith
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
4.07 km² overlap
Rice
IUCN V
Lake
3.55 km² overlap
David Ogle
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
3.26 km² overlap
Blunt
IUCN V
Reservoir
2.87 km² overlap

10 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Hyde County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
1.61 km² overlap
James Ogle 37
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.69 km² overlap
J Fanger
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.66 km² overlap
D Winckler
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.65 km² overlap
T. Beckler
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.64 km² overlap
Woodruff Lake Area
IUCN V
Lake
0.52 km² overlap
Hofer
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.40 km² overlap
State Game Production Area
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.36 km² overlap
Arikara Game Production Area
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.11 km² overlap
Rousseau
IUCN V
State Recreation Area
0.07 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

443 distinct species · 5 967 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 37 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Medicine Knoll Creek : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 100 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

100

Connectance

0.135

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

7,1°C

Annual rain

463mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,56

Runoff

61mm/an

PET

1 044mm

AET

399mm

Mean slope

0,7°

Water table

161cm

Forest

Crops

55%

Urban

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)