HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080485380
Bassin de Kishwaukee River North Branch
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 6 administrative regions : Boone, De Kalb, Kane, McHenry, Walworth +1
Sub-basin area
1 760,9km²
Upstream area
1 760,9km²
Discharge
16,72m³/s
Mean elev.
269m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 817.8 km²46.4% of basin
- 523.8 km²29.7% of basin
- 245.9 km²13.9% of basin
- Walworth73.5 km²4.2% of basin
- De Kalb60.0 km²3.4% of basin
- 42.7 km²2.4% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Area
6.04 km² overlap
Rush Creek
IUCN VForest Preserve
2.88 km² overlap
Rush Creek 14
IUCN VConservation Area
1.82 km² overlap
Pingree Grove
IUCN VForest Preserve
1.60 km² overlap
Marengo Ridge 11
IUCN VConservation Area
1.30 km² overlap
Beck Woods
IUCN VConservation Area
1.22 km² overlap
Kishwaukee Corridor 14
IUCN Not AssignedCorridor
1.15 km² overlap
Coon Creek 3
IUCN VConservation Area
1.10 km² overlap
Pleasant Valley 12
IUCN VConservation Area
1.05 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Kishwaukee
IUCN Not AssignedCorridor
1.02 km² overlap
Marengo Ridge 7
IUCN VConservation Area
1.02 km² overlap
Brookdale
IUCN VForest Preserve
1.00 km² overlap
Coral Woods 10
IUCN VConservation Area
0.98 km² overlap
Lussky Marsh
IUCN VNatural Area
0.98 km² overlap
Distillery Road
IUCN VConservation Area
0.96 km² overlap
Kishwaukee Corridor 6
IUCN Not AssignedCorridor
0.94 km² overlap
Shaw Farm
IUCN VConservation Area
0.90 km² overlap
Kishwaukee Corridor 18
IUCN Not AssignedCorridor
0.89 km² overlap
Forest Preserve
0.85 km² overlap
Exner Marsh
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.81 km² overlap
Sewell
IUCN VConservation Area
0.81 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.77 km² overlap
Ipsen Road
IUCN VConservation Area
0.77 km² overlap
Conservation Area
0.76 km² overlap
Piscasaw Fen
IUCN VConservation Area
0.71 km² overlap
LIB
IUCN VConservation Area
0.71 km² overlap
Kishwaukee Corridor 11
IUCN Not AssignedCorridor
0.64 km² overlap
Coon Creek 6
IUCN VConservation Area
0.63 km² overlap
Kishwaukee Corridor 8
IUCN Not AssignedCorridor
0.60 km² overlap
Anderson Bend
IUCN VConservation Area
0.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 011 distinct species · 452 836 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Kishwaukee River North Branch : 28 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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
908mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
301mm/an
PET
984mm
AET
761mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
51cm
Forest
10%
Crops
73%
Urban
9%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)