HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080452290
Bassin de Pipestone 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 4 administrative regions : Minnehaha, Moody, Pipestone, Rock
Sub-basin area
1 668,3km²
Upstream area
1 668,4km²
Discharge
7,56m³/s
Mean elev.
486m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 514.1 km²30.8% of basin
- 499.9 km²29.9% of basin
- 468.9 km²28.1% of basin
- 188.6 km²11.3% of basin
20 intersecting protected areas
National Wildlife Refuge
4.67 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
2.06 km² overlap
Palisades
IUCN VState Recreation Area
0.68 km² overlap
Eden
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.64 km² overlap
Permanent
IUCN VWetland Preserve
0.63 km² overlap
Springwater
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.62 km² overlap
Beaver Creek
IUCN VNature Area
0.61 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN VWaterfowl Production Area
0.48 km² overlap
Pipestone
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.46 km² overlap
11 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Easement
0.41 km² overlap
Ringneck Ridge
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.33 km² overlap
Smiley Barn
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.33 km² overlap
Jasper
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.32 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.31 km² overlap
Little Beaver Creek
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.22 km² overlap
Troy
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.22 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.20 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
0.07 km² overlap
Easement
0.04 km² overlap
Private Conservation Land
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 817 distinct species · 92 176 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 Pipestone Creek : 30 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
6,8°C
Annual rain
641mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
155mm/an
PET
978mm
AET
548mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
98cm
Forest
0%
Crops
75%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)