WDID 4400763
Irrigation · Elkhead Creek · Routt County, Colorado
Priority date
December 6, 1886
1st most senior of 136 rights on Elkhead Creek in Routt 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
- Elkhead Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Smith Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 5.46 cfs (2,450.6 gpm)
- County
- Routt County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 40.54177, -107.38825)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 4400763
- Adjudication date
- 1892-09-22
- Administration number
- 13489.00000
- Priority number
- 16
- Court case numbers
- 09/22/1892
- Water division / district
- 6 / 44
- Absolute amount
- 5.46 cfs
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Elkhead Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2Mar 26, 1888WDID 4400763Elkhead Creek · Irrigation2.2 cfs
- #3May 1, 1890WDID 4400699Elkhead Creek · Irrigation8.33 cfs
- #4May 1, 1890WDID 4400700Elkhead Creek · Irrigation11.66 cfs
- #5Aug 1, 1902WDID 4404437Elkhead Creek · Irrigation, Industrial, Domestic30 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.
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