HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080518720
Bassin de Pope 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 6 administrative regions : Des Moines, Henderson, Henry, Knox, Louisa +1
Sub-basin area
730,1km²
Upstream area
293 220,9km²
Discharge
2 180,2m³/s
Mean elev.
204m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Edwards River1182 km²
- Bassin de Eliza Creek205 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 333.2 km²45.6% of basin
- Des MoinesIowa · United States170.0 km²23.3% of basin
- 78.0 km²10.7% of basin
- Henry62.5 km²8.5% of basin
- 59.4 km²8.1% of basin
- LouisaIowa · United States28.0 km²3.8% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Management Area
17.17 km² overlap
Ms Rv Pools 11-22
IUCN VRecreation Area
15.92 km² overlap
Henderson Creek
IUCN VState Wildlife Area
6.00 km² overlap
Reserve Program
5.99 km² overlap
Huron Flats
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.69 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.66 km² overlap
Allen Green
IUCN VRefuge
0.59 km² overlap
Luckenbill Woods
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.30 km² overlap
Port Louisa
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.04 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Oquawka Reach Bed
IUCN VConservation Area
0.01 km² overlap
Port Louisa
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 182 distinct species · 10 799 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Pope Creek : 36 espèces reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.4%, 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°
10,1°C
Annual rain
906mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
266mm/an
PET
1 040mm
AET
765mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
62cm
Forest
13%
Crops
68%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)