HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080750650
Bassin de Turkey 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 2 administrative regions : Hardin, Tyler
Sub-basin area
454,3km²
Upstream area
454,5km²
Discharge
6,03m³/s
Mean elev.
82m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 428.5 km²94.4% of basin
- Hardin25.4 km²5.6% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Big Thicket
IUCN VNational Preserve
26.63 km² overlap
Big Thicket Megasite
IUCN VPrivate Conservation Land
0.48 km² overlap
McAfee
IUCN VNature Preserve
0.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 351 distinct species · 12 423 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Turkey Creek : 40 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 102 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.3%, 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°
18,8°C
Annual rain
1 332mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
425mm/an
PET
1 482mm
AET
1 094mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
77cm
Forest
100%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)