HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080546570
Bassin de Racoon 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 2 administrative regions : Parke, Vermillion
Sub-basin area
105,5km²
Upstream area
28 945,7km²
Discharge
332,42m³/s
Mean elev.
180m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sugar Creek2110 km²
- Bassin de Little Vermilion River1460 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 79.0 km²74.8% of basin
- 26.6 km²25.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Watershed Protection
1.72 km² overlap
Farm Service Agency Interest Of In
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.09 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.05 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
512 distinct species · 1 141 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Racoon Creek : 31 espèces reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.7%, 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°
11,1°C
Annual rain
1 032mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
395mm/an
PET
1 098mm
AET
840mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
86cm
Forest
60%
Crops
48%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)