HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080602840
Bassin de Russell Fork
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 : Buchanan, Dickenson, Letcher, Pike, Russell +1
Sub-basin area
1 752,3km²
Upstream area
1 752,3km²
Discharge
22,97m³/s
Mean elev.
587m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 849.0 km²48.4% of basin
- Wise314.2 km²17.9% of basin
- Pike298.6 km²17.0% of basin
- Buchanan244.2 km²13.9% of basin
- 40.9 km²2.3% of basin
- Russell6.1 km²0.3% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Breaks Interstate
IUCN Not AssignedPark
13.17 km² overlap
Pine Mountain Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
1.62 km² overlap
Pine Mountain State Scenic Trail | Kentucky Department of Parks
IUCN Not AssignedTrail
0.07 km² overlap
Bad Branch Macrosite Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.01 km² overlap
Pine Mountain Fee
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 204 distinct species · 47 995 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 Russell Fork : 27 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
11,9°C
Annual rain
1 158mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
436mm/an
PET
1 164mm
AET
908mm
Mean slope
12,9°
Water table
503cm
Forest
98%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)