HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080495950
Bassin de Middle Raccoon 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 : Carroll, Guthrie
Sub-basin area
660,9km²
Upstream area
660,9km²
Discharge
3,96m³/s
Mean elev.
383m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- CarrollIowa · United States607.9 km²91.8% of basin
- GuthrieIowa · United States54.1 km²8.2% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
White Rock Conservancy
IUCN VNGO Preserve
13.41 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.98 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.50 km² overlap
Tigges North
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.34 km² overlap
Hazelbrush
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.31 km² overlap
Hazelbrush
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.26 km² overlap
Hazelton
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.01 km² overlap
Rail Bend
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
665 distinct species · 30 655 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Middle Raccoon River : 25 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
8,6°C
Annual rain
821mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
191mm/an
PET
1 027mm
AET
698mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
115cm
Forest
0%
Crops
89%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)