WDID 1800503
Storage, Irrigation, Municipal · Apishapa River · Las Animas County, Colorado
Priority date
October 31, 1866
1st most senior of 181 rights on Apishapa River in Las Animas 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
- Apishapa River
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Gonzales Ditch
- Uses
- Storage, Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial, Industrial, Recreation, Fishery, Fire, Domestic, Stock, Augmentation, Wildlife
- Flow rate
- 7.31 cfs (3,280.9 gpm)
- County
- Las Animas County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 37.38759, -104.66511)
- Structure type
- Ditch
- WDID
- 1800503
- Adjudication date
- 1887-03-12
- Administration number
- 6148.00000
- Priority number
- EXC-1
- Court case numbers
- 05CW0103, 03/12/1887
- Water division / district
- 2 / 18
- Absolute amount
- 7.31 cfs
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Apishapa River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2Mar 31, 1867WDID 1800506Apishapa River · Irrigation10.8 cfs
- #3Apr 30, 1867WDID 1800515Apishapa River · Irrigation1.95 cfs
- #4Jun 24, 1867WDID 1800520Apishapa River · Irrigation2.13 cfs
- #5Apr 1, 1868WDID 1800550Apishapa River · Irrigation3.44 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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