HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080553390
Bassin de Middle Fork Salt 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 7 administrative regions : Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Macon, Monroe +2
Sub-basin area
3 130km²
Upstream area
3 130km²
Discharge
24,01m³/s
Mean elev.
245m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1123.5 km²35.9% of basin
- Monroe1014.1 km²32.4% of basin
- Macon444.7 km²14.2% of basin
- Randolph392.5 km²12.5% of basin
- Boone105.3 km²3.4% of basin
- 36.6 km²1.2% of basin
- Shelby16.1 km²0.5% of basin
20 intersecting protected areas
Mark Twain
IUCN IIIState Park
5.66 km² overlap
White (Robert M., II)
IUCN VConservation Area
4.71 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
3.98 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.30 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.13 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.34 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
1.05 km² overlap
Rocky Hollow
IUCN VNatural Area
0.80 km² overlap
Lowe (William)
IUCN VConservation Area
0.54 km² overlap
11 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Conservation Area
0.33 km² overlap
Wildlife Area
0.29 km² overlap
Woodlawn
IUCN VAccess
0.25 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.16 km² overlap
Cedar Bluff
IUCN VAccess
0.16 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.13 km² overlap
Jacks (Maude Shores)
IUCN VConservation Area
0.08 km² overlap
Paris
IUCN VAccess
0.04 km² overlap
Santa Fe
IUCN VAccess
0.03 km² overlap
Union Covered Bridge
IUCN IIIState Historic Site
0.01 km² overlap
Atlanta
IUCN VConservation Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 200 distinct species · 31 123 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 Middle Fork Salt River : 29 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
11,8°C
Annual rain
989mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
261mm/an
PET
1 126mm
AET
836mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
53cm
Forest
3%
Crops
58%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)