HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080522920
Bassin de Flint River
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 : Des Moines, Henderson, Henry
Sub-basin area
481,7km²
Upstream area
295 533,8km²
Discharge
2 202,24m³/s
Mean elev.
213m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 1 basins
- Bassin de Mississippi River203 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Des MoinesIowa · United States460.4 km²95.5% of basin
- HenryIowa · United States11.6 km²2.4% of basin
- 10.2 km²2.1% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Mississippi River
IUCN VConservation Area
2.17 km² overlap
Hickory Bend
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.84 km² overlap
Starr's Cave
IUCN VState Preserve
0.75 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.43 km² overlap
Kevin J. Gahn
IUCN VWildlife Refuge
0.22 km² overlap
Hoover Nature Trail
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.20 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.06 km² overlap
Blackhawk Bottoms
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
827 distinct species · 28 986 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Flint River : 31 espèces reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.9%, 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°
10,2°C
Annual rain
909mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
263mm/an
PET
1 043mm
AET
768mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
81cm
Forest
10%
Crops
59%
Urban
5%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)