HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080568400
Bassin de Ohio 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 4 administrative regions : Boone, Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland
Sub-basin area
500km²
Upstream area
213 920,9km²
Discharge
3 259,74m³/s
Mean elev.
227m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Laughery Creek886 km²
- Bassin de Ohio River7 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Boone331.2 km²66.2% of basin
- 105.3 km²21.0% of basin
- 64.0 km²12.8% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Middle Creek
IUCN VPark
1.07 km² overlap
Gunpowder Creek
IUCN VNature Park
1.00 km² overlap
Camargo
IUCN IIIPark
0.54 km² overlap
Dinsmore Woods
IUCN VState Nature Preserve
0.42 km² overlap
Boone County Cliffs
IUCN VState Nature Preserve
0.31 km² overlap
Park
0.18 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 696 distinct species · 121 226 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Ohio River : 25 espèces reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.3%, 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°
11,9°C
Annual rain
1 085mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
412mm/an
PET
1 121mm
AET
853mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
219cm
Forest
67%
Crops
26%
Urban
17%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)