HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080541220
Bassin de Lost 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 4 administrative regions : Clinton, Daviess, De Kalb, Gentry
Sub-basin area
834,3km²
Upstream area
834,3km²
Discharge
6,01m³/s
Mean elev.
290m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- De Kalb628.2 km²75.2% of basin
- Daviess125.0 km²15.0% of basin
- 54.7 km²6.5% of basin
- Clinton27.3 km²3.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Pony Express Lake
IUCN VConservation Area
13.52 km² overlap
King Lake
IUCN VConservation Area
5.23 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
817 distinct species · 15 660 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Lost Creek : 31 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
10,9°C
Annual rain
915mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
231mm/an
PET
1 103mm
AET
774mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
111cm
Forest
5%
Crops
62%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)