HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080498780
Bassin de Rock 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 2 administrative regions : Carroll, Whiteside
Sub-basin area
560,1km²
Upstream area
560,1km²
Discharge
4,99m³/s
Mean elev.
223m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 313.8 km²56.0% of basin
- Carroll247.1 km²44.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
0.33 km² overlap
Wildlife Area
0.05 km² overlap
Clyde Cemetery Prairie
IUCN Not AssignedCemetery
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
666 distinct species · 4 946 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Rock Creek : 31 espèces reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
8,8°C
Annual rain
914mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
282mm/an
PET
1 005mm
AET
771mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
74cm
Forest
1%
Crops
83%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)