Seniority, absolute versus conditional water, and decreed uses for all 1,615 water rights on record in Morgan County, taken from the state's own records. Priority dates run from 1868-04-20 to 2024-12-31.
CFS on record: 10,440.7 absolute · 3,495.1 conditional. Flow (CFS) and volume (AF) are never added together.
Worth knowing: Morgan County has about 2.8x more acre-feet decreed as conditional than as absolute. Conditional water is decreed on paper but not yet put to beneficial use. A buyer or lender who does not separate the two is valuing a different asset than the one on the ground.
In a dry year the oldest rights are served first. This is how Morgan County's rights are distributed.
| Era | Rights | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| pre-1900 | 38 | 2.4% | |
| 1900-1949 | 480 | 29.7% | |
| 1950-1969 | 751 | 46.5% | |
| 1970-1999 | 154 | 9.5% | |
| 2000+ | 192 | 11.9% |
| Decreed use | Rights |
|---|---|
| Irrigation | 1,058 |
| Domestic | 351 |
| Stock | 223 |
| Recharge | 184 |
| Augmentation | 144 |
| Commercial | 143 |
Ranked by the state's own priority administration number, the figure DWR uses to order rights by seniority.
| Priority | Structure | Source | Amount | Uses | Verify |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1868-04-20 | UPPER PLATTE BEAVER CNL | SOUTH PLATTE RIVER | 15.0 CFS | Irrigation | state record |
| 1869-05-15 | UPPER PLATTE BEAVER CNL | SOUTH PLATTE RIVER | 5.17 CFS | Irrigation | state record |
| 1871-04-02 | DEUEL SNYDER CANAL | SOUTH PLATTE RIVER | 13.0 CFS | Irrigation, Augmentation, Recharge | state record |
| 1872-06-01 | JOHNSON AND EDWARDS DITCH | SOUTH PLATTE RIVER | 15.0 CFS | Irrigation | state record |
| 1874-07-01 | DEUEL SNYDER CANAL | SOUTH PLATTE RIVER | 8.0 CFS | Irrigation, Augmentation, Recharge | state record |
| 1874-11-15 | TETSEL DITCH | SOUTH PLATTE RIVER | 17.0 CFS | Irrigation | state record |
| 1882-05-01 | BEAVER DITCH | BEAVER CREEK | 44.0 CFS | Irrigation, Municipal, Commercial, Industrial, Domestic, Augmentation, Other | state record |
| 1882-06-20 | UPPER PLATTE BEAVER CNL | SOUTH PLATTE RIVER | 50.0 CFS | Irrigation | state record |
| 1882-07-01 | TETSEL DITCH | SOUTH PLATTE RIVER | 20.0 CFS | Irrigation | state record |
| 1882-09-04 | LOWER PLATTE BEAVER D | SOUTH PLATTE RIVER | 38.0 CFS | Irrigation | state record |
This page is the summary. The full file for Morgan County covers every one of the 1,615 rights, with its priority date, seniority number, absolute and conditional amounts, decreed uses and a link to each official record, as a spreadsheet.
Buying, lending on, or listing irrigated ground here? Ask for the county file, or for a single property's water summary. The first one is on me.
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Records last updated 10 September 2026.