HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080642870
Bassin de Fork 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 3 administrative regions : Blount, Loudon, Monroe
Sub-basin area
618,3km²
Upstream area
6 740,6km²
Discharge
202,34m³/s
Mean elev.
305m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tellico River735 km²
- Bassin de Little Tennessee River712 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Blount227.3 km²36.8% of basin
- Monroe219.8 km²35.5% of basin
- 171.3 km²27.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Foothills
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
13.09 km² overlap
Tellico Lake
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
8.70 km² overlap
Kyker Bottoms
IUCN VWildlife Management Area
2.34 km² overlap
Great Smoky Mountains
IUCN IINational Park
1.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 947 distinct species · 204 847 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 Fork Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 62 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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 383mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
805mm/an
PET
1 262mm
AET
989mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
156cm
Forest
80%
Crops
40%
Urban
1%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)