HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080581620

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 8 administrative regions : Anderson, Fayette, Franklin, Garrard, Jessamine +3

Pfafstetter: 74267451

Sub-basin area

1 089,6km²

Upstream area

14 150,9km²

Discharge

193,18m³/s

Mean elev.

246m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kentucky River1148 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Dix River1140 km²
Bassin de Kentucky River898 km²

8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Woodford
Kentucky · United States
334.9 km²
30.7% of basin
Franklin
Kentucky · United States
281.9 km²
25.9% of basin
Anderson
Kentucky · United States
149.2 km²
13.7% of basin
Mercer
Kentucky · United States
144.2 km²
13.2% of basin
Jessamine
Kentucky · United States
100.0 km²
9.2% of basin
Shelby
Kentucky · United States
80.1 km²
7.3% of basin
Fayette
Kentucky · United States
0.0 km²
0.0% of basin
Garrard
Kentucky · United States
0.0 km²
0.0% of basin

11 intersecting protected areas

Clyde E. Buckley Wildlife Sanctuary and Audubon Center
IUCN V
Wildlife Sanctuary
1.63 km² overlap
Cove Springs
IUCN V
Park
0.85 km² overlap
River Cliffs State Nature Preserve - Gates tract
IUCN Not Assigned
State Nature Preserve
0.45 km² overlap
Kentucky River Palisades
IUCN V
Easement
0.41 km² overlap
River Cliffs
IUCN V
State Nature Preserve
0.40 km² overlap
Cove Springs - Fincel tract
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.36 km² overlap
Carpenter Farm
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
0.28 km² overlap
Rockcress Hills
IUCN V
State Nature Preserve
0.26 km² overlap
Julian Savanna State Nature Preserve - Julian Family tract
IUCN V
State Nature Preserve
0.17 km² overlap

2 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Feindel
IUCN V
Conservation Area
0.06 km² overlap
Kentucky River Palisades Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
0.06 km² overlap

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

Species present

2 798 distinct species · 218 764 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 41 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 Kentucky River : 33 espèces reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.088

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°

12,7°C

Annual rain

1 169mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,00

Runoff

457mm/an

PET

1 166mm

AET

901mm

Mean slope

2,9°

Water table

146cm

Forest

27%

Crops

49%

Urban

Protected

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