HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080499700
Bassin de Fox 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 7 administrative regions : Cook, Dupage, Kane, Kendall, Lake +2
Sub-basin area
1 755,4km²
Upstream area
4 787,6km²
Discharge
54,28m³/s
Mean elev.
240m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Fox River541 km²
- Bassin de Nippersink Creek480 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 740.8 km²42.1% of basin
- 372.7 km²21.2% of basin
- 217.7 km²12.4% of basin
- Cook200.1 km²11.4% of basin
- Lake173.6 km²9.9% of basin
- 47.7 km²2.7% of basin
- 5.4 km²0.3% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Plank Road Meadow Boat Launch
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserve
45.60 km² overlap
Moraine Hills
IUCN VState Park
7.34 km² overlap
Lakewood
IUCN Not AssignedForest Preserve
6.02 km² overlap
Fox River Fen
IUCN VNature Preserve
4.88 km² overlap
Volo Bog
IUCN VState Natural Area
4.79 km² overlap
Paul Douglas
IUCN VPreserve
3.90 km² overlap
Crabtree
IUCN Not AssignedNature Center
3.85 km² overlap
Silver Creek
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
3.07 km² overlap
Boone Creek
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Area
2.71 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Grassy Lake
IUCN VForest Preserve
2.69 km² overlap
Meissner-Corron
IUCN VForest Preserve
2.47 km² overlap
Fox River
IUCN Not AssignedForest Preserve
2.36 km² overlap
Singing Hills
IUCN VForest Preserve
2.32 km² overlap
Wildlife Area
2.28 km² overlap
Spring Lake
IUCN VNature Preserve
2.28 km² overlap
Nelson Lake Marsh
IUCN VLake
2.10 km² overlap
The Hollows
IUCN Not AssignedLocal Conservation Area
1.94 km² overlap
Hannaford Woods
IUCN VForest Preserve
1.71 km² overlap
Hoover
IUCN VForest Preserve
1.64 km² overlap
Black Crown Marsh
IUCN VState Natural Area
1.51 km² overlap
Open Space
1.42 km² overlap
Stickney Run 12
IUCN VNatural Area
1.41 km² overlap
Headwaters
IUCN VConservation Area
1.40 km² overlap
Lyons Prairie and Marsh
IUCN VConservation Area
1.14 km² overlap
Fel-Pro
IUCN Not AssignedLocal Conservation Area
1.10 km² overlap
Fox Bluff
IUCN Not AssignedLocal Conservation Area
1.07 km² overlap
Jelke Creek
IUCN VBird Sanctuary
1.05 km² overlap
Henneberry F.P.
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.94 km² overlap
Stickney Run
IUCN VConservation Area
0.91 km² overlap
Hickory Grove Highlands
IUCN VGrove
0.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 689 distinct species · 3 002 302 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 Fox River : 29 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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
918mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
342mm/an
PET
986mm
AET
767mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
65cm
Forest
23%
Crops
36%
Urban
53%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)