HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080638920
Bassin de Yadkin 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 : Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Stokes, Surry +1
Sub-basin area
1 094,5km²
Upstream area
5 148,3km²
Discharge
86,83m³/s
Mean elev.
282m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ararat River824 km²
- Bassin de Yadkin River146 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 584.5 km²53.4% of basin
- Forsyth210.4 km²19.2% of basin
- 155.1 km²14.2% of basin
- 82.9 km²7.6% of basin
- 53.4 km²4.9% of basin
- 8.4 km²0.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Pilot Mountain
IUCN IIIState Park
10.77 km² overlap
Preserve
3.26 km² overlap
UT to Hauser Creek
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 083 distinct species · 311 594 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 Yadkin River : 25 espèces reliées par 60 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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 175mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
491mm/an
PET
1 267mm
AET
944mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
145cm
Forest
17%
Crops
28%
Urban
5%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)