HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080574940
Bassin de Kentucky 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 6 administrative regions : Carroll, Franklin, Henry, Owen, Scott +1
Sub-basin area
1 147,5km²
Upstream area
16 567,2km²
Discharge
226,74m³/s
Mean elev.
235m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de North Elkhorn Creek1269 km²
- Bassin de Kentucky River1090 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Henry483.8 km²42.1% of basin
- Owen460.4 km²40.1% of basin
- Franklin98.3 km²8.6% of basin
- Shelby88.4 km²7.7% of basin
- Scott17.4 km²1.5% of basin
- Carroll0.0 km²0.0% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Kentucky River
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
10.64 km² overlap
John A. Kleber
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
8.81 km² overlap
Wildlife Management Area
4.79 km² overlap
Research Center
1.19 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
1.19 km² overlap
Twin Eagle W
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.69 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.50 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 141 distinct species · 34 767 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Kentucky River : 30 espèces reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
12,3°C
Annual rain
1 144mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
424mm/an
PET
1 158mm
AET
891mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
174cm
Forest
72%
Crops
35%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)