HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080499260
Bassin de French 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 : Crawford, Erie
Sub-basin area
498,1km²
Upstream area
1 787km²
Discharge
28,13m³/s
Mean elev.
413m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de French Creek1055 km²
- Bassin de Muddy Creek235 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Crawford364.6 km²73.1% of basin
- Erie134.3 km²26.9% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Erie
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
5.25 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.83 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.79 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Chester, PA
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.52 km² overlap
Jacob Guy Rna
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.31 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.15 km² overlap
French Creek
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.07 km² overlap
Venango Riffle
IUCN VPrivate Conservation
0.04 km² overlap
FCVC Easement 5
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 195 distinct species · 139 277 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 French Creek : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.3%, 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°
8,1°C
Annual rain
1 123mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
517mm/an
PET
941mm
AET
780mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
261cm
Forest
92%
Crops
19%
Urban
3%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)