Hydrohistorian
Log in

← The archive

Uncompahgre Irrigation Project, serving the Albin Ranch. Southwest Colorado. n.d.

U.S. Geological Survey · n.d. · U.S. Geological Survey

Irrigated fields, an orchard and a farmhouse with a white roof spread across a valley floor beneath bare, deeply eroded badland hills.
From the archive · U.S. Geological Survey · n.d. Uncompahgre Irrigation Project, serving the Albin Ranch. Southwest Colorado. n.d. U.S. Geological Survey

U.S. Geological Survey, USGS Library Photographic Collection U.S. government work; public domain. Archive record ↗ · Rights

Source Archival record · verify at U.S. Geological Survey ↗

A ranch under the Uncompahgre Project: orchard and ploughed ground in the valley, and the dry adobe hills behind that show what the same land looks like without the water.

Shows: The contrast the project was built to make -- irrigated ground against the Mancos shale hills.

What this does not let you conclude: The date, the exact ranch, or which lateral serves it. Undated in the USGS record; the collection spans 1879-1979.

Placed on

Report a problem →