HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080544790
Bassin de McMahon 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 : Belmont, Greene, Marshall, Ohio
Sub-basin area
660,5km²
Upstream area
65 310,9km²
Discharge
1 218,16m³/s
Mean elev.
337m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wheeling Creek763 km²
- Bassin de Wheeling Creek362 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 358.2 km²54.2% of basin
- Marshall293.4 km²44.4% of basin
- Ohio8.3 km²1.3% of basin
- Greene1.2 km²0.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Ohio River Islands
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
0.83 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.15 km² overlap
US-WV-25-1 MItigat
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.05 km² overlap
Grave Creek Mound
IUCN IIIState Park
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 527 distinct species · 36 502 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 McMahon Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
10,2°C
Annual rain
1 055mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
433mm/an
PET
1 071mm
AET
834mm
Mean slope
7,3°
Water table
299cm
Forest
93%
Crops
21%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)