HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080533210
Bassin de Spoon 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 : Fulton, Knox, McDonough
Sub-basin area
1 309,5km²
Upstream area
4 833,8km²
Discharge
44,32m³/s
Mean elev.
190m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cedar Creek751 km²
- Bassin de Littlers Creek166 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fulton1234.9 km²94.2% of basin
- 74.0 km²5.6% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.2% of basin
12 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Area
7.96 km² overlap
Lakeland
IUCN VPark
4.34 km² overlap
The Emiquon Complex
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
3.64 km² overlap
Emiquon
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
3.48 km² overlap
Nature Conservancy
IUCN VNatural Area
3.15 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.65 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.50 km² overlap
Reserve
0.47 km² overlap
Harper-Rector Woods
IUCN VState Natural Area
0.16 km² overlap
3 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Harper-Rector Woods
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.14 km² overlap
Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 133 distinct species · 48 938 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 Spoon River : 28 espèces reliées par 69 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
10,6°C
Annual rain
944mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
287mm/an
PET
1 068mm
AET
796mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
93cm
Forest
12%
Crops
62%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)