HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080516770
Bassin de Beaver 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 : Iroquois, Kankakee, Newton
Sub-basin area
491,2km²
Upstream area
491,3km²
Discharge
6,13m³/s
Mean elev.
201m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Newton189.0 km²38.4% of basin
- 186.0 km²37.8% of basin
- 117.0 km²23.8% of basin
26 intersecting protected areas
Willow Slough
IUCN VFish And Wildlife Area
32.80 km² overlap
Wildlife Area
11.50 km² overlap
State Wildlife Area
6.64 km² overlap
Hooper Branch Savanna
IUCN VNature Preserve
2.23 km² overlap
Kankakee Sands Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
2.18 km² overlap
State Wildlife Area
1.09 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
1.04 km² overlap
Barnes (Bill)
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.98 km² overlap
Little Beaver Creek
IUCN VConservation Area
0.58 km² overlap
17 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Carl N. Becker Savanna
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.57 km² overlap
Reserve
0.53 km² overlap
Kankakee Sands Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.44 km² overlap
Wildlife Area
0.42 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.34 km² overlap
Kankakee Sands
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.34 km² overlap
Reserve
0.30 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
0.27 km² overlap
Carlson Gamebird
IUCN VHabitat Area
0.16 km² overlap
Barnes West Site Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.16 km² overlap
Sweet Fern Savanna
IUCN VConservation Area
0.15 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.14 km² overlap
Reserve
0.05 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
0.04 km² overlap
Nature Preserve
0.01 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.00 km² overlap
Mason Area
IUCN VNatural Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 906 distinct species · 123 404 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Beaver Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
9,7°C
Annual rain
967mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
392mm/an
PET
1 033mm
AET
799mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
25cm
Forest
25%
Crops
69%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)