HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080560580
Bassin de Clarks 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 5 administrative regions : Geary, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley, Wabaunsee
Sub-basin area
1 401,7km²
Upstream area
117 257,4km²
Discharge
105,87m³/s
Mean elev.
396m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Republican River1068 km²
- Bassin de Smoky Hill River40 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 549.2 km²39.1% of basin
- 548.6 km²39.1% of basin
- 295.5 km²21.1% of basin
- 8.0 km²0.6% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.1% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Greater Flint Hills Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
28.68 km² overlap
Flint Hills Legacy
IUCN VConservation Area
5.18 km² overlap
Reserve Program
4.36 km² overlap
Reserve Program
4.06 km² overlap
Greater Flint Hills
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.57 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 972 distinct species · 237 871 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Clarks Creek : 33 espèces reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
12,1°C
Annual rain
857mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
168mm/an
PET
1 165mm
AET
726mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
199cm
Forest
0%
Crops
35%
Urban
3%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)