HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080500300
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 : Dallas, Guthrie
Sub-basin area
266,7km²
Upstream area
1 222,1km²
Discharge
7,39m³/s
Mean elev.
340m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Middle Raccoon River661 km²
- Bassin de Willow Creek295 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GuthrieIowa · United States246.3 km²92.2% of basin
- DallasIowa · United States20.8 km²7.8% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
Middle Raccoon River
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
5.28 km² overlap
Bays Branch
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
4.08 km² overlap
Big Bend
IUCN VWildlife Area
2.43 km² overlap
Springbrook
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.25 km² overlap
Lennon Mills
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.00 km² overlap
Guthrie County
IUCN VIWaterfowl Production Area
1.12 km² overlap
Bennie Hall
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.68 km² overlap
SE Robinson
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.42 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.04 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Local Conservation Area
0.02 km² overlap
Marlowe Ray
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
433 distinct species · 5 483 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 23 espèces reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
9,2°C
Annual rain
841mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
198mm/an
PET
1 045mm
AET
713mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
168cm
Forest
13%
Crops
67%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)