HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080593950

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 5 administrative regions : Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison, Rockcastle

2% lakePfafstetter: 74267453

Sub-basin area

898,3km²

Upstream area

11 922,2km²

Discharge

159,15m³/s

Mean elev.

279m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kentucky River1090 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Kentucky River1023 km²
Bassin de Silver Creek318 km²

5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Garrard
Kentucky · United States
370.6 km²
41.2% of basin
Jessamine
Kentucky · United States
310.1 km²
34.5% of basin
Fayette
Kentucky · United States
112.1 km²
12.5% of basin
Madison
Kentucky · United States
106.0 km²
11.8% of basin
Rockcastle
Kentucky · United States
0.1 km²
0.0% of basin

12 intersecting protected areas

Kentucky River Palisades Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
4.81 km² overlap
Tom Dorman
IUCN V
State Nature Preserve
3.65 km² overlap
Kentucky River Palisades
IUCN V
Easement
1.71 km² overlap
Camp Nelson
IUCN III
National Monument
1.55 km² overlap
Jessamine Creek Gorge
IUCN V
Nature Preserve
1.09 km² overlap
Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage
IUCN III
Park
1.04 km² overlap
White Oak Creek
IUCN V
Easement
0.56 km² overlap
Hickman Creek Nature & Conference Center
IUCN V
Private Nature Preserve
0.51 km² overlap
Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (FRPP)
IUCN Not Assigned
Conservation Easement
0.21 km² overlap

3 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Kentucky River Palisades
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
0.14 km² overlap
White Oak Creek Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
0.04 km² overlap
White Oak Creek Fee
IUCN V
Private Conservation Land
0.02 km² overlap

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

Species present

2 808 distinct species · 369 302 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 40 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 : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.092

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°

12,9°C

Annual rain

1 197mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

0,03

Runoff

468mm/an

PET

1 157mm

AET

910mm

Mean slope

3,2°

Water table

148cm

Forest

23%

Crops

49%

Urban

12%

Protected

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