HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080608920
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 4 administrative regions : Ballard, Massac, McCracken, Pulaski
Sub-basin area
455,3km²
Upstream area
525 487,7km²
Discharge
7 824,93m³/s
Mean elev.
111m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ohio River403 km²
- Bassin de Massac Creek175 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 165.5 km²36.3% of basin
- 150.5 km²33.0% of basin
- Pulaski72.7 km²16.0% of basin
- 66.8 km²14.7% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Ballard
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
20.29 km² overlap
West Kentucky
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
12.36 km² overlap
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program - Wetland Reserve Easements (ACEP-WRE), Ballard, KY
IUCN VConservation Easement
0.62 km² overlap
Metropolis Lake
IUCN VState Nature Preserve
0.50 km² overlap
Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.40 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.39 km² overlap
Lino Laird Ravine
IUCN VConservation Area
0.22 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.20 km² overlap
Halesia
IUCN VConservation Area
0.14 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Fort Massac
IUCN VState Park
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 822 distinct species · 43 641 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 : 27 espèces reliées par 70 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.8%, 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°
14,0°C
Annual rain
1 219mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,02
Runoff
493mm/an
PET
1 200mm
AET
919mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
49cm
Forest
2%
Crops
65%
Urban
1%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)