HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080483020

Bassin de North Branch Lizard 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 9 administrative regions : Buena Vista, Calhoun, Clay, Hamilton, Humboldt +4

Pfafstetter: 74284700

Sub-basin area

2 314,4km²

Upstream area

11 941,4km²

Discharge

68,14m³/s

Mean elev.

353m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Des Moines River2249 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Des Moines River1770 km²
Bassin de East Fork Des Moines River305 km²

9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Webster
Iowa · United States
1255.2 km²
54.1% of basin
Pocahontas
Iowa · United States
675.4 km²
29.1% of basin
Humboldt
Iowa · United States
192.9 km²
8.3% of basin
Palo Alto
Iowa · United States
69.8 km²
3.0% of basin
Clay
Iowa · United States
48.8 km²
2.1% of basin
Hamilton
Iowa · United States
45.6 km²
2.0% of basin
Calhoun
Iowa · United States
22.6 km²
1.0% of basin
Buena Vista
Iowa · United States
7.7 km²
0.3% of basin

1 moreFull L2 list

Wright0.3 km² · 0.0%

30 intersecting protected areas

Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Buena Vista, IA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
1.67 km² overlap
Boone Forks
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
1.31 km² overlap
Dry Mud Lake
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
1.05 km² overlap
Brushy Creek
IUCN V
State Preserve
0.92 km² overlap
Bob Hay Memorial
IUCN V
Conservation Area
0.91 km² overlap
Pickerel Lake
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.77 km² overlap
Lizard Lake
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.76 km² overlap
Miller Marsh
IUCN V
Local Conservation Area
0.74 km² overlap
Kalsow Prairie
IUCN V
State Preserve
0.65 km² overlap

21 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Pocahontas County
IUCN VI
Waterfowl Production Area
0.63 km² overlap
Becker
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.55 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Webster, IA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
0.53 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Pocahontas, IA
IUCN V
Reserve Program
0.52 km² overlap
Lizard Creek
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.42 km² overlap
Lizard Creek
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.33 km² overlap
Birke
IUCN V
Wildlife Area
0.32 km² overlap
Rush Lake
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.31 km² overlap
Pioneer Prairie Pothole
IUCN V
Local Conservation Area
0.27 km² overlap
Woodman Hollow
IUCN V
State Preserve
0.26 km² overlap
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ia
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.20 km² overlap
Buena Vista County
IUCN VI
Waterfowl Production Area
0.20 km² overlap
Woodlands
IUCN V
Open Space
0.17 km² overlap
Whitetail Ridge
IUCN V
Local Conservation Area
0.17 km² overlap
Holiday Creek Area
IUCN V
Local Conservation Area
0.17 km² overlap
Rossow Prairie
IUCN V
Local Conservation Area
0.16 km² overlap
Deception Hollow
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.16 km² overlap
Calhoun Wildlife
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.13 km² overlap
Meier Memorial Marsh
IUCN V
Local Conservation Area
0.12 km² overlap
Wiegert Prairie
IUCN V
Local Conservation Area
0.11 km² overlap
Liska-Stanek Prairie
IUCN V
State Preserve
0.08 km² overlap

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

Species present

1 144 distinct species · 19 169 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 42 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 North Branch Lizard Creek : 33 espèces reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

112

Connectance

0.130

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°

8,2°C

Annual rain

806mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,19

Runoff

199mm/an

PET

1 000mm

AET

684mm

Mean slope

0,5°

Water table

43cm

Forest

Crops

85%

Urban

Protected

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