HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080524450
Bassin de Raccoon 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 : Allegheny, Beaver, Washington
Sub-basin area
657,7km²
Upstream area
59 313,9km²
Discharge
1 113,3m³/s
Mean elev.
335m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chartiers Creek1303 km²
- Bassin de Beaver River181 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Beaver416.0 km²63.2% of basin
- Washington196.7 km²29.9% of basin
- 45.9 km²7.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Raccoon Creek
IUCN VState Park
28.51 km² overlap
Hillman
IUCN IIIState Park
15.57 km² overlap
Ohio River Islands
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 497 distinct species · 292 680 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Raccoon Creek : 29 espèces reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
9,8°C
Annual rain
968mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
493mm/an
PET
1 046mm
AET
783mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
263cm
Forest
87%
Crops
12%
Urban
4%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)