HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080562560

Bassin de Shavers Fork

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 3 administrative regions : Pocahontas, Randolph, Tucker

Pfafstetter: 74269869

Sub-basin area

518,9km²

Upstream area

518,9km²

Discharge

12,51m³/s

Mean elev.

1 011m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Cheat River23 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Randolph
West Virginia · United States
378.8 km²
73.0% of basin
Tucker
West Virginia · United States
74.6 km²
14.4% of basin
Pocahontas
West Virginia · United States
65.8 km²
12.7% of basin

9 intersecting protected areas

Cheat
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
184.64 km² overlap
Otter Creek
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
119.37 km² overlap
Little River
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
46.18 km² overlap
Blackwater
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
8.96 km² overlap
Beaver Dam
IUCN V
Wildlife Management Area
8.47 km² overlap
Otter Creek
IUCN Ib
Wilderness
4.52 km² overlap
Upper Shavers Fork
IUCN V
Preserve
0.38 km² overlap
Cass Scenic Railroad
IUCN III
State Park
0.17 km² overlap
Blister Run Swamp
IUCN III
National Natural Landmark
0.14 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 415 distinct species · 52 950 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Shavers Fork : 34 espèces reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.089

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

8,1°C

Annual rain

1 363mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,29

Runoff

674mm/an

PET

964mm

AET

874mm

Mean slope

11,9°

Water table

484cm

Forest

100%

Crops

Urban

Protected

37%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)