HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080600510
Bassin de Tradewater 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 : Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Union +1
Sub-basin area
2 594,8km²
Upstream area
2 595,1km²
Discharge
31,4m³/s
Mean elev.
142m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 721.5 km²27.8% of basin
- 489.3 km²18.8% of basin
- Webster432.7 km²16.7% of basin
- Union384.2 km²14.8% of basin
- 287.8 km²11.1% of basin
- Christian280.5 km²10.8% of basin
18 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Management Area
9.10 km² overlap
Higginson-Henry
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
8.10 km² overlap
Jones-Keeney
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
8.09 km² overlap
Clear Creek
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
3.47 km² overlap
Tradewater W
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.95 km² overlap
Reserve Program
2.31 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.50 km² overlap
Reserve Program
1.39 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.97 km² overlap
9 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Reserve Program
0.87 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.57 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Caldwell, KY
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.33 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Hopkins, KY
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.24 km² overlap
Lee K. Nelson
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
0.24 km² overlap
Hunter Bluff Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.15 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.14 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Webster, KY
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.10 km² overlap
Conservation Easement
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 960 distinct species · 56 429 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).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Tradewater River : 35 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 66 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
13,9°C
Annual rain
1 213mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
382mm/an
PET
1 212mm
AET
915mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
122cm
Forest
44%
Crops
42%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)