HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080501710
Bassin de Old Man's 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 : Iowa, Johnson
Sub-basin area
635,2km²
Upstream area
635,5km²
Discharge
5,32m³/s
Mean elev.
237m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- JohnsonIowa · United States326.8 km²51.4% of basin
- IowaIowa · United States309.3 km²48.6% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Redbird Farms
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.88 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.97 km² overlap
Frytown
IUCN VConservation Area
0.39 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.34 km² overlap
Belgum Grove
IUCN VGrove
0.16 km² overlap
I-80
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
723 distinct species · 7 054 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Old Man's Creek : 26 espèces reliées par 130 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
9,5°C
Annual rain
897mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
264mm/an
PET
1 031mm
AET
760mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
91cm
Forest
1%
Crops
69%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)