HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080462010

Bassin de Little Sioux 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 5 administrative regions : Clay, Dickinson, Jackson, Nobles, Osceola

47% lakePfafstetter: 74295169

Sub-basin area

1 430,5km²

Upstream area

1 430,5km²

Discharge

7,4m³/s

Mean elev.

443m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Little Sioux River2211 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Dickinson
Iowa · United States
650.2 km²
45.4% of basin
Jackson
Minnesota · United States
500.5 km²
34.9% of basin
Clay
Iowa · United States
120.2 km²
8.4% of basin
Nobles
Minnesota · United States
94.6 km²
6.6% of basin
Osceola
Iowa · United States
67.6 km²
4.7% of basin

30 intersecting protected areas

Jackson County
IUCN VI
Waterfowl Production Area
14.09 km² overlap
Spring Run Wetland Complex
IUCN V
Wetland
11.92 km² overlap
Kettleson-Hogsback Complex
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
4.87 km² overlap
Cayler Prairie Complex
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
3.93 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Dickinson, IA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
3.03 km² overlap
Emergency Wetlands Reserve Program (EWetlands Reserve Program (WRP)), Clay, IA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
2.31 km² overlap
Hales Slough
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
2.13 km² overlap
Garlock Slough
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
1.91 km² overlap
Diamond Lake
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
1.90 km² overlap

21 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Jemmerson Slough Complex
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.74 km² overlap
Sioux Valley
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.63 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Dickinson, IA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
1.45 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Dickinson, IA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
1.44 km² overlap
Reiter
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
1.41 km² overlap
Center Lake Complex
IUCN V
Lake
1.39 km² overlap
Sangl
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.38 km² overlap
Welch Lake
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
1.31 km² overlap
Santee Prairie
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.25 km² overlap
Little Sioux
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
1.24 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Jackson, MN
IUCN V
Reserve Program
1.19 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Dickinson, IA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
1.00 km² overlap
Skunk Lake
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.96 km² overlap
Martin County
IUCN V
Waterfowl Production Area
0.81 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Clay, IA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
0.76 km² overlap
Dugout Creek
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.74 km² overlap
Minneota
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.70 km² overlap
Cayler Prairie
IUCN V
State Preserve
0.65 km² overlap
Summers
IUCN V
State Wildlife Management Area
0.64 km² overlap
Northern Tallgrass Prairie
IUCN V
National Wildlife Refuge
0.60 km² overlap
Judd
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.56 km² overlap

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

Species present

2 305 distinct species · 73 564 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 38 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 Little Sioux River : 29 espèces reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.117

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°

7,0°C

Annual rain

715mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,25

Runoff

163mm/an

PET

953mm

AET

608mm

Mean slope

0,6°

Water table

57cm

Forest

Crops

79%

Urban

Protected

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