HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080518540
Bassin de Soap 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 4 administrative regions : Appanoose, Davis, Monroe, Wapello
Sub-basin area
667km²
Upstream area
667km²
Discharge
5,58m³/s
Mean elev.
256m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- DavisIowa · United States272.1 km²40.7% of basin
- AppanooseIowa · United States156.7 km²23.5% of basin
- WapelloIowa · United States152.1 km²22.8% of basin
- MonroeIowa · United States86.9 km²13.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Pioneer Ridge
IUCN VNature Area
4.03 km² overlap
Eldon
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.80 km² overlap
Soap Creek (Appanoose)
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.58 km² overlap
Tubaugh
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
467 distinct species · 4 288 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 Soap Creek : 25 espèces reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
10,4°C
Annual rain
911mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
267mm/an
PET
1 056mm
AET
770mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
132cm
Forest
26%
Crops
51%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)