File 281
Irrigation · Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River) · Ellis County, Kansas
Priority date
January 9, 1948
1st most senior of 4 rights on Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River) in Ellis County
- Water use correspondent
- Gordon Steckline
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Appropriation right
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 2,020 gpm (4.501 cfs)
- Volume
- 65 acre-feet
- County
- Ellis County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 38.70688, -99.26366)
- River basin
- Smoky Hill River
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River)
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2Mar 11, 1953File 1267Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River) · MunicipalCity of Russell · 4,200 gpm, 1,085.9 AF
- #3Feb 8, 1966File 11631Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River) · IrrigationHarvey J & Dorothy a Werth Rev Trusts · 1,000 gpm, 30 AF
- #4Jul 7, 2000File 44272-5Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River) · DomesticDeborah L Grabbe Living Trust · 95 gpm, 2.8 AF
From Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Water Resources, WIMAS points of diversion (active water rights), fetched October 8, 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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