HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080498280

Bassin de Christiana 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 5 administrative regions : Cass, Elkhart, LaGrange, Noble, Saint Joseph

22% lakePfafstetter: 72589050

Sub-basin area

1 006,2km²

Upstream area

6 511,2km²

Discharge

56,99m³/s

Mean elev.

262m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de St. Joseph River2266 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Prairie River1358 km²
Bassin de Pigeon Creek1057 km²

5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Cass
Michigan · United States
459.3 km²
45.6% of basin
Elkhart
Indiana · United States
288.4 km²
28.6% of basin
LaGrange
Indiana · United States
242.3 km²
24.0% of basin
Noble
Indiana · United States
16.1 km²
1.6% of basin
Saint Joseph
Michigan · United States
1.6 km²
0.2% of basin

16 intersecting protected areas

Crane Pond State Game
IUCN V
Pond
6.42 km² overlap
Boot Lake
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
1.16 km² overlap
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mi
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.69 km² overlap
Elkhart Bog (malaxis)
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.61 km² overlap
Pipewort Pond
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.53 km² overlap
Conley
IUCN V
Wildlife Refuge
0.41 km² overlap
Christiana
IUCN V
Lake
0.29 km² overlap
Leatherleaf Shrub Carr Bog
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.05 km² overlap
Old Mill
IUCN V
Natural Area
0.05 km² overlap

7 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Eby Prairie
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.05 km² overlap
Malaxis Bog Site Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
0.03 km² overlap
Saint Joseph Valley
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
0.02 km² overlap
Radebaugh Memorial
IUCN V
Plant Preserve
0.01 km² overlap
02-14-0015
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.01 km² overlap
Farm Service Agency Interest Of In
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.00 km² overlap
99-12-0394
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.00 km² overlap

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

Species present

2 076 distinct species · 104 852 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Christiana Creek : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.104

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°

9,0°C

Annual rain

943mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,04

Runoff

291mm/an

PET

985mm

AET

755mm

Mean slope

0,8°

Water table

48cm

Forest

31%

Crops

59%

Urban

Protected

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