HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080537660
Bassin de Salt 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 : Logan, Mason, Menard
Sub-basin area
365,2km²
Upstream area
4 880,3km²
Discharge
44,87m³/s
Mean elev.
172m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sugar Creek1305 km²
- Bassin de Salt Creek141 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 224.9 km²61.5% of basin
- 124.5 km²34.1% of basin
- 16.2 km²4.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Reserve Program
0.33 km² overlap
Revis Hill Prairie
IUCN VState Natural Area
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
943 distinct species · 7 638 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 Salt Creek : 38 espèces reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
11,1°C
Annual rain
918mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
278mm/an
PET
1 088mm
AET
775mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
49cm
Forest
1%
Crops
84%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)