WDID 5800706
Irrigation · Elk River · Routt County, Colorado
Priority date
February 1, 1889
19th most senior of 204 rights on Elk River 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
- Elk River
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- James Wheeler Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 1.5 cfs (673.2 gpm)
- County
- Routt County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 40.71820, -106.90858)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 5800706
- Adjudication date
- 1892-09-22
- Administration number
- 14277.00000
- Priority number
- (62(67
- Court case numbers
- 09/22/1892
- Water division / district
- 6 / 58
- Absolute amount
- 1.5 cfs
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Elk River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #15Jun 14, 1888WDID 5801021Elk River · Irrigation, Domestic, All beneficial uses0.83 cfs
- #16Jun 14, 1888WDID 5802126Elk River · Irrigation, Domestic, All beneficial uses
- #17Sep 5, 1888WDID 5800928Elk River · Irrigation2.8 cfs
- #18Sep 15, 1888WDID 5800623Elk River · Irrigation1.3 cfs
- #19 · this right
- #20May 1, 1889WDID 5800728Elk River · Irrigation5.2 cfs
- #21Aug 1, 1889WDID 5800878Elk River · Irrigation2 cfs
- #22Jan 6, 1890WDID 5800649Elk River · Irrigation4 cfs
- #23May 1, 1890WDID 5800513Elk River · Irrigation, Municipal, Industrial2 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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