HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080685290
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 3 administrative regions : Cullman, Walker, Winston
Sub-basin area
602,2km²
Upstream area
2 574,4km²
Discharge
56,54m³/s
Mean elev.
206m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sipsey Fork1432 km²
- Bassin de Rock Creek541 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 501.2 km²83.2% of basin
- 100.8 km²16.7% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 435 distinct species · 12 660 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 : 40 espèces reliées par 89 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.9%, 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°
15,5°C
Annual rain
1 458mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
674mm/an
PET
1 347mm
AET
1 044mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
170cm
Forest
74%
Crops
15%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)