HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080505050
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 3 administrative regions : Crawford, Mercer, Venango
Sub-basin area
332,9km²
Upstream area
2 714,9km²
Discharge
44,4m³/s
Mean elev.
416m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Conneaut Outlet258 km²
- Bassin de French Creek93 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Crawford175.1 km²52.5% of basin
- Mercer86.3 km²25.9% of basin
- 72.0 km²21.6% of basin
12 intersecting protected areas
FCVC Easement 19
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
1.61 km² overlap
Vaszil Property Acquisition
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
1.42 km² overlap
French Creek
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.73 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.66 km² overlap
FCVC Easement 10a
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.51 km² overlap
Sugarcreek Station Riparian Area
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.35 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), Chester, PA
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.25 km² overlap
FCVC Easement 41
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.16 km² overlap
Sugarcreek Landing
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.16 km² overlap
3 more protected areassorted by overlap area
FCVC Easement 9
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
0.08 km² overlap
Private Conservation
0.05 km² overlap
Utica
IUCN VAccess
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 233 distinct species · 18 137 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 : 19 espèces reliées par 55 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.6%, 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°
8,3°C
Annual rain
1 109mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
566mm/an
PET
988mm
AET
802mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
309cm
Forest
99%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)