HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080456750
Bassin de Fairchild 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 2 administrative regions : Saginaw, Shiawassee
Sub-basin area
131,9km²
Upstream area
3 513,5km²
Discharge
22,34m³/s
Mean elev.
204m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Flint River537 km²
- Bassin de Misteguay Creek351 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 71.8 km²54.3% of basin
- 60.3 km²45.7% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Shiawassee
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
5.71 km² overlap
Shiawassee River State
IUCN VGame Area
0.96 km² overlap
00-00-0037
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.50 km² overlap
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mi
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.19 km² overlap
08-73-0049
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
585 distinct species · 108 148 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Fairchild Creek : 25 espèces reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
8,4°C
Annual rain
763mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
221mm/an
PET
956mm
AET
645mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
16cm
Forest
6%
Crops
64%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)