HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080591910
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 6 administrative regions : Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, Perry, Spencer +1
Sub-basin area
1 220,7km²
Upstream area
251 181,5km²
Discharge
3 693,14m³/s
Mean elev.
134m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ohio River2386 km²
- Bassin de Anderson River670 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 562.2 km²46.0% of basin
- Daviess363.8 km²29.8% of basin
- Hancock286.0 km²23.4% of basin
- 4.8 km²0.4% of basin
- Henderson4.5 km²0.4% of basin
- Perry0.2 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Yellow Creek
IUCN VPark
0.63 km² overlap
Dav
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.31 km² overlap
Watershed Protection
0.31 km² overlap
Joe Ford
IUCN VNature Park
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 180 distinct species · 45 437 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 : 30 espèces reliées par 68 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
13,2°C
Annual rain
1 169mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
382mm/an
PET
1 183mm
AET
901mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
77cm
Forest
23%
Crops
56%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)