HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080538130
Bassin de Salt Fork
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 2 administrative regions : Champaign, Vermilion
Sub-basin area
1 297km²
Upstream area
1 297km²
Discharge
14,32m³/s
Mean elev.
212m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 927.4 km²71.4% of basin
- 371.0 km²28.6% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Conservation Area
0.92 km² overlap
Edgewood Farm
IUCN VLand And Water Reserve
0.61 km² overlap
Trelease Woods
IUCN VForest Reserve
0.30 km² overlap
St. Joseph
IUCN VWetland
0.26 km² overlap
Brownfield Woods
IUCN VForest Reserve
0.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 297 distinct species · 491 058 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 Salt Fork : 23 espèces reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.6%, 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°
10,8°C
Annual rain
958mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
342mm/an
PET
1 058mm
AET
802mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
18cm
Forest
5%
Crops
87%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)