WDID 5300518
Irrigation · King Creek · Routt County, Colorado
Priority date
April 15, 1885
3rd most senior of 32 rights on King 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
- King Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Buffalo Head Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 5 cfs (2,244.2 gpm)
- County
- Routt County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 40.03617, -106.85974)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 5300518
- Adjudication date
- 1890-11-20
- Administration number
- 12889.00000
- Priority number
- 18
- Court case numbers
- CA0295
- Water division / district
- 5 / 53
- Absolute amount
- 5 cfs
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on King Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1Jun 30, 1883WDID 5300825King Creek · Irrigation2.3 cfs
- #2Jul 31, 1883WDID 5300514King Creek · Irrigation1.3 cfs
- #3 · this right
- #4Apr 15, 1885WDID 5300596King Creek · Irrigation7.8 cfs
- #5May 15, 1885WDID 5300762King Creek · Irrigation0.8 cfs
- #6May 15, 1885WDID 5300825King Creek · Irrigation1.6 cfs
- #7May 20, 1886WDID 5300540King Creek · Irrigation1.2 cfs
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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