HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080557760
Bassin de Chariton 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 15 administrative regions : Adair, Appanoose, Chariton, Clarke, Davis +10
Sub-basin area
6 124,1km²
Upstream area
6 124,1km²
Discharge
54,07m³/s
Mean elev.
279m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
15 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- AppanooseIowa · United States1057.8 km²17.3% of basin
- 823.9 km²13.4% of basin
- WayneIowa · United States810.9 km²13.2% of basin
- Macon770.6 km²12.6% of basin
- Putnam762.9 km²12.4% of basin
- Adair760.8 km²12.4% of basin
- LucasIowa · United States368.3 km²6.0% of basin
- Sullivan292.4 km²4.8% of basin
7 moreFull L2 list
- Schuyler236.9 km² · 3.9%
- Linn104.0 km² · 1.7%
- Clarke60.7 km² · 1.0%
- Monroe26.8 km² · 0.4%
- Randolph26.6 km² · 0.4%
- Decatur24.8 km² · 0.4%
- Davis3.9 km² · 0.1%
30 intersecting protected areas
Rathbun
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
64.02 km² overlap
Union Ridge
IUCN VConservation Area
33.22 km² overlap
Sedan Bottoms
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
24.26 km² overlap
Reserve Program
20.55 km² overlap
Reserve Program
16.96 km² overlap
Rebel's Cove
IUCN VConservation Area
16.89 km² overlap
Thousand Hills
IUCN IIIState Park
12.40 km² overlap
Sugar Creek
IUCN VConservation Area
10.48 km² overlap
Mussel Fork
IUCN VConservation Area
9.89 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Reserve Program
9.04 km² overlap
Reserve Program
8.48 km² overlap
Mineral Hills
IUCN VConservation Area
8.05 km² overlap
Hidden Hollow
IUCN VConservation Area
5.39 km² overlap
Big Creek
IUCN VConservation Area
4.27 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
3.67 km² overlap
Colyn
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.45 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.63 km² overlap
Chariton River
IUCN VGreenbelt
2.55 km² overlap
Slab Castle
IUCN VWildlife Area
1.86 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
1.80 km² overlap
National Wildlife Refuge
1.80 km² overlap
Ross
IUCN VWildlife Area
1.76 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.71 km² overlap
Goshen
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
1.68 km² overlap
Montgomery Woods
IUCN VConservation Area
1.41 km² overlap
Dark Hollow
IUCN VNatural Area
1.28 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.25 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.17 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.16 km² overlap
Pin Oak Marsh
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
1.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 532 distinct species · 126 035 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Chariton River : 28 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.4%, 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°
10,6°C
Annual rain
963mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
259mm/an
PET
1 082mm
AET
813mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
107cm
Forest
21%
Crops
51%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)