HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080468180
Bassin de East Fork Des Moines 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 2 administrative regions : Humboldt, Kossuth
Sub-basin area
389,5km²
Upstream area
2 784,5km²
Discharge
17,25m³/s
Mean elev.
355m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lindsey Creek326 km²
- Bassin de Black Cat Creek313 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- KossuthIowa · United States363.2 km²93.1% of basin
- HumboldtIowa · United States27.0 km²6.9% of basin
16 intersecting protected areas
Watershed Protection
2.19 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Kossuth, IA
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.80 km² overlap
Smith
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.69 km² overlap
Hurlburt
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.68 km² overlap
Wildwood
IUCN VRecreation Area
0.50 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.49 km² overlap
East Fork DSM River
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.47 km² overlap
Bur Oak
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.33 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.29 km² overlap
7 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Devine Wildlife
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.25 km² overlap
Kubicek Pits
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.20 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.17 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.13 km² overlap
Smith Prairie
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.06 km² overlap
Geigel Woods
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.05 km² overlap
Riverdale Timber
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
732 distinct species · 3 005 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 East Fork Des Moines River : 40 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
7,8°C
Annual rain
775mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
197mm/an
PET
977mm
AET
657mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
49cm
Forest
0%
Crops
91%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)