HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080681290
Bassin de Sipsey 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 4 administrative regions : Franklin, Lawrence, Walker, Winston
Sub-basin area
1 431,5km²
Upstream area
1 431,5km²
Discharge
31,47m³/s
Mean elev.
235m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1079.8 km²75.5% of basin
- 315.3 km²22.0% of basin
- 33.3 km²2.3% of basin
- 2.7 km²0.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Sipsey
IUCN IbWilderness
104.60 km² overlap
Wild and Scenic River
41.68 km² overlap
Bee Branch
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.49 km² overlap
Atlantic Coast Conservancy/Pelican Coast Conservancy Conservation Easement E201340P
IUCN Not AssignedConservation Easement
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 042 distinct species · 115 713 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Sipsey Fork : 29 espèces reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.1%, 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°
15,3°C
Annual rain
1 488mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
683mm/an
PET
1 334mm
AET
1 049mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
186cm
Forest
93%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)