HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080706180
Bassin de Elm Fork Trinity 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 4 administrative regions : Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant
Sub-basin area
315,8km²
Upstream area
6 665,5km²
Discharge
36,27m³/s
Mean elev.
157m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Elm Fork Trinity River4494 km²
- Bassin de Denton Creek319 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Dallas311.3 km²98.6% of basin
- 3.0 km²0.9% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
L. B. Houston
IUCN VNature Area
1.28 km² overlap
Dimension Tract
IUCN VNatural Area
0.22 km² overlap
Grapevine Springs Park
IUCN VPreserve
0.06 km² overlap
Elm Fork
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.06 km² overlap
Hines
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 686 distinct species · 177 103 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 50 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 Elm Fork Trinity River : 40 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
18,5°C
Annual rain
907mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
186mm/an
PET
1 388mm
AET
767mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
100cm
Forest
12%
Crops
3%
Urban
98%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)