South Dakota Water Rights
~9,584 water rights records
Points of Diversion & Use by County
Mapped diversion and place-of-use sites filed with the state engineer, via WaDE.
Pennington County779 sites
Meade County632 sites
Fall River County521 sites
Union County516 sites
Custer County484 sites
Brookings County469 sites
Spink County453 sites
Clay County422 sites
Minnehaha County417 sites
Beadle County410 sites
Lawrence County405 sites
Butte County391 sites
Turner County381 sites
Yankton County355 sites
Harding County292 sites
Hamlin County254 sites
Charles Mix County253 sites
Codington County239 sites
Todd County237 sites
Brown County214 sites
Showing top 20 of 73 counties
Top Water Right Holders
By permitted flow across the state's 500 largest rights.
Dept Of Game Fish Parks6,427 CFS
Gray Goose Irr Dist432 CFS
Harveyandrea Sheehan325 CFS
Ken Hayes240 CFS
City Of Sioux Falls131 CFS
Otter Tail Power Company125 CFS
City Of Spearfish100 CFS
City Of Rapid City84 CFS
Northwest Irrigation Dist76 CFS
John A Putnam74 CFS
City Of Aberdeen72 CFS
Alice Moseley60 CFS
George Crawley60 CFS
Bowers Distillery Inc55 CFS
Homestake Mining Company54 CFS
Full South Dakota Water Rights Map
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