HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080537680
Bassin de North Fork Vermilion 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 4 administrative regions : Benton, Iroquois, Vermilion, Warren
Sub-basin area
789,7km²
Upstream area
789,7km²
Discharge
8,99m³/s
Mean elev.
217m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 519.6 km²65.7% of basin
- Warren159.9 km²20.2% of basin
- 77.1 km²9.8% of basin
- 34.0 km²4.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Vermilion County Soil and Water Conservation District Easement #
IUCN Not AssignedEasement
1.38 km² overlap
Conservation Area
1.30 km² overlap
Knob View Gamebird
IUCN VHabitat Area
0.25 km² overlap
Nature Preserve
0.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 009 distinct species · 57 478 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 North Fork Vermilion River : 25 espèces reliées par 61 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
10,3°C
Annual rain
972mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
359mm/an
PET
1 046mm
AET
807mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
30cm
Forest
9%
Crops
77%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)