HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080578810
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 5 administrative regions : Cabell, Gallia, Lawrence, Mason, Putnam
Sub-basin area
608,9km²
Upstream area
138 285,8km²
Discharge
2 254,81m³/s
Mean elev.
229m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Raccoon Creek1761 km²
- Bassin de Ohio River155 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mason284.1 km²46.6% of basin
- 154.0 km²25.3% of basin
- 95.7 km²15.7% of basin
- Lawrence62.2 km²10.2% of basin
- Putnam13.3 km²2.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Chief Cornstalk
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
19.63 km² overlap
Green Bottom
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
4.52 km² overlap
Crown City
IUCN VWildlife Area
1.37 km² overlap
K H Butler
IUCN VWildlife Area
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 130 distinct species · 85 820 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 : 27 espèces reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.9%, 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°
12,0°C
Annual rain
1 075mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
325mm/an
PET
1 170mm
AET
871mm
Mean slope
5,8°
Water table
281cm
Forest
97%
Crops
9%
Urban
2%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)