Oregon Water Rights Points of Diversion and Places of Use

Points of Diversion (POD) and Places of Use (POU) for individually held water rights in Oregon, provided by the State of Oregon. The dataset excludes rights held by irrigation districts, applications, temporary transfers, instream leases, and limited licenses. Official code definitions and compilation procedures are documented in linked PDFs from the Oregon Water Resources Department.

Use Cases

• Mapping water right locations based on geospatial point and polygon data.
• Analyzing water allocation patterns based on the distinction between diversion points and usage areas.
• Validating water right records based on the documented compilation procedures and code definitions.

Strengths

• Data is provided in multiple geospatial formats including CSV, JSON, KML, and GeoJSON.
• Exclusions are clearly defined (irrigation districts, applications, etc.), clarifying dataset scope.
• Official documentation links for code definitions and compilation procedures are provided.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the State of Oregon's jurisdiction.

Provenance

Source

State of Oregon

Collection Method

Compilation procedures are documented in a linked PDF from the Oregon Water Resources Department.

Time Range

Current water rights as of the last update.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 03:16:52.463072; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Oregon, United States.