WDID 0801281
Irrigation, Recreation, Fire · Rainbow Creek · Douglas County, Colorado
Priority date
May 31, 1866
Before 1880
- Owner
- Not in Colorado's decreed-rights data. These rights convey by deed, so ownership is traced through county property records.
- Status
- Absolute
- Record type
- Decreed water right
- Source
- Rainbow Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Nelson Ranch Headgate
- Uses
- Irrigation, Recreation, Fire, Domestic, Stock
- Flow rate
- 0.69 cfs (309.7 gpm)
- County
- Douglas County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 39.41110, -105.04025)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 0801281
- Adjudication date
- 1883-12-10
- Administration number
- 5995.00000
- Court case numbers
- 06CW0294
- Water division / district
- 1 / 8
- Absolute amount
- 0.69 cfs
From Colorado Division of Water Resources (CDSS), Water Rights Net Amounts + Well Application Permits, fetched October 8, 2026. The state's own record is the authority: amounts, owners and status here can lag behind it, and a mapped point of diversion says nothing about which parcel the right serves. This page is not legal advice.
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