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. The dataset excludes rights held by irrigation districts, applications, temporary transfers, instream leases, and limited licenses. It is maintained by the State of Oregon's Water Resources Department and was last updated on 2026-03-22.

Use Cases

• Mapping water diversion infrastructure based on point location data
• Analyzing agricultural water rights distribution based on place-of-use polygons
• Modeling water resource availability and allocation based on water right attributes

Strengths

• Data is explicitly defined as current for individually held water rights
• Provides official documentation links for code definitions and compilation procedures
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including KML and GeoJSON

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Excludes rights held by irrigation districts and other entities, limiting scope

Provenance

Source

State of Oregon Water Resources Department

Collection Method

Compilation procedures documented at an official state URL

Time Range

Current water rights as of the last update

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 03:18:26.348987

Geography

State of Oregon, USA