HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080609410
Bassin de Goose Creek
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 : Bedford, Botetourt, Campbell, Pittsylvania
Sub-basin area
1 006,2km²
Upstream area
4 706,3km²
Discharge
61,04m³/s
Mean elev.
289m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pigg River1024 km²
- Bassin de Roanoke River72 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Bedford701.1 km²69.6% of basin
- 231.7 km²23.0% of basin
- Campbell73.1 km²7.3% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Bed-Vof-4051
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.16 km² overlap
The Nature Conservancy
IUCN VEasement
0.13 km² overlap
Reserve Program
0.10 km² overlap
Wetlands
IUCN Not AssignedReserve Program
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 006 distinct species · 43 819 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Goose Creek : 21 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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 078mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
415mm/an
PET
1 205mm
AET
882mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
248cm
Forest
86%
Crops
21%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)