HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080462580
Bassin de Lindsey 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 3 administrative regions : Hancock, Kossuth, Winnebago
Sub-basin area
326km²
Upstream area
2 082,2km²
Discharge
13,13m³/s
Mean elev.
362m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KossuthIowa · United States234.7 km²71.9% of basin
- HancockIowa · United States88.1 km²27.0% of basin
- WinnebagoIowa · United States3.7 km²1.1% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Patterson Recreation and
IUCN VWildlife Area
1.23 km² overlap
Plum Creek
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.32 km² overlap
Kossuth County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
0.31 km² overlap
Plum Creek Timber
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.29 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.22 km² overlap
Lake George
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.11 km² overlap
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ia
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.10 km² overlap
Union Slough
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
137 distinct species · 473 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Lindsey Creek : 22 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
7,7°C
Annual rain
776mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
214mm/an
PET
966mm
AET
658mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
30cm
Forest
0%
Crops
91%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)