HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080488560
Bassin de Rush 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 : Carroll, Jackson, Jo Daviess
Sub-basin area
239,7km²
Upstream area
220 145,1km²
Discharge
1 571,63m³/s
Mean elev.
241m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Apple River684 km²
- Bassin de Mississippi River46 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 178.8 km²74.5% of basin
- Carroll46.2 km²19.2% of basin
- JacksonIowa · United States15.1 km²6.3% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
20.91 km² overlap
Refuge
9.61 km² overlap
Ms Rv Pools 11-22
IUCN VRecreation Area
4.65 km² overlap
Wildlife And Fish Refuge
4.08 km² overlap
Wildlife And Fish Refuge
3.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 440 distinct species · 58 910 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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Rush Creek : 29 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.8%, 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°
8,3°C
Annual rain
890mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
274mm/an
PET
977mm
AET
751mm
Mean slope
3,2°
Water table
209cm
Forest
27%
Crops
49%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)