HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080542610

Bassin de 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 2 administrative regions : Vermilion, Vermillion

Pfafstetter: 74266761

Sub-basin area

227km²

Upstream area

3 697km²

Discharge

41,7m³/s

Mean elev.

191m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Little Vermilion River1460 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Stony Creek121 km²
Bassin de North Fork Vermilion River14 km²

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Vermilion
Illinois · United States
140.1 km²
61.6% of basin
Vermillion
Indiana · United States
87.2 km²
38.4% of basin

8 intersecting protected areas

Russell M. Duffin
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.74 km² overlap
Vermilion River - Wabash Drainage
IUCN V
Conservation Area
0.60 km² overlap
Doris Westfall Prairie Restoration
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.18 km² overlap
Russell M. Duffin
IUCN V
Natural Area
0.13 km² overlap
Howard's Hollow Seep
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.13 km² overlap
Forest Glen Seep
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.07 km² overlap
Forest Glen Seep
IUCN V
Conservation Area
0.02 km² overlap
Harry "Babe" Woodyard
IUCN V
State Natural Area
0.01 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 527 distinct species · 9 344 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 51 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Vermilion River : 44 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.060

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

10,7°C

Annual rain

1 008mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,06

Runoff

367mm/an

PET

1 074mm

AET

828mm

Mean slope

1,0°

Water table

78cm

Forest

31%

Crops

64%

Urban

Protected

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)