WDID 1103535
Augmentation · Middle Cottonwood Creek · Chaffee County, Colorado
Priority date
December 19, 1864
1st most senior of 9 rights on Middle Cottonwood Creek in Chaffee County
- 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
- Middle Cottonwood Creek
- Kind of source
- Storage
- Name
- Rainbow Lake (M Cottonwd Crk)
- Uses
- Augmentation
- County
- Chaffee County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 38.81095, -106.26522)
- Structure type
- Reservoir
- WDID
- 1103535
- Adjudication date
- 1890-06-19
- Administration number
- 5467.00000
- Priority number
- 3
- Court case numbers
- 95CW0208
- Water division / district
- 2 / 11
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Middle Cottonwood Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2Dec 31, 1935WDID 1102018Middle Cottonwood Creek · Fire, Stock, Federal reserved0.006 cfs
- #3May 10, 1963WDID 1102031Middle Cottonwood Creek · Irrigation, Domestic, Geothermal0.5 cfs
- #4Oct 21, 1964WDID 1103535Middle Cottonwood Creek · Fishery106.2 AF
- #5Jul 9, 1975WDID 1103953Middle Cottonwood Creek · Minimum streamflow479 AF
From Colorado Division of Water Resources (CDSS), Water Rights Net Amounts + Well Application Permits, fetched October 12, 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.
How water rights work in Colorado · Report a problem with this record