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Agricultural Sector

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Hines, M.K., Herman-Mercer, N.M., Bair, L.S., Restrepo-Osorio, D.L., Romero, V.Y., and Lyde, A., 2022, Human Factors of Water Availability in the Upper Colorado River Basin: U.S. Geological Survey data release, http://doi.org/10.5066/P99PAIVH.

Summary

For the purposes of the Human Factors of Water Availability project the agricultural sector includes the USGS Water Use Program categories of Irrigation, Livestock, and Aquaculture. Data useful for better understanding water demand in the agricultural sector is provided here including Irrigation districts and irrigated land in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Irrigation price of water data is provided for Mesa County, a key agricultural county in the state of Colorado within the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB), as an example of data that impacts demand and supply of water in the agricultural sector. Crop land cover data was retrieved from the CropScape online data application, the R script used to process data is provided along [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Megan K Hines
Originator :
Megan K Hines, Nicole M Herman-Mercer, Lucas S Bair, Diana L Restrepo-Osorio, Veronica Y Romero, Aidan Lyde
Metadata Contact :
Megan K Hines
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
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U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

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ucrb_dams_irrigation_purpose.mpk
“Figure 9 in pub, National Inventory of Dams, reservoirs with irrigation purpose” 		5.65 MB x-gis/x-mpk
irrigation_ucrb.mpk
“Figure 13 in publication, Irrigation Districts in the UCRB” 		28.9 MB x-gis/x-mpk
cropscape_2017_ucrb.mpk
“Figure 12 in publication, Distribution of generalized crop types in UCRB, 2017” 		46.73 MB x-gis/x-mpk
cropscape.R
“R script for manipulating USDA CropLand/Cropscape Data” 		24.08 KB text/x-rsrc
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Cropland_2012_State.csv
“CropLand type by state for the UCRB in 2012” 		30.58 KB text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Cropland_2012_State_HFCategorySum.csv
“Total acreage of land type for the UCRB by state in 2012, HF Categories” 		2.01 KB text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Cropland_2017_Basin.csv
“Cropland data summarized by crop type for the UCRB in 2017” 		4.64 KB text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Cropland_2017_Basin_HFCategorySum.csv
“Cropland data summarized by HF categories for the UCRB in 2017” 		337 Bytes text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Cropland_2017_County.csv
“Cropland data summarized by CropLand type by county for the UCRB in 2017 ” 		195.6 KB text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Cropland_2017_County_HFCategorySum.csv
“Cropland data summarized by HF categories for the UCRB counties in 2017” 		36.39 KB text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Cropland_2017_State.csv
“CropLand type by state for the UCRB in 2017” 		30.66 KB text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Cropland_2017_State_HFCategorySum.csv
“Total acreage of land type for the UCRB by state in 2017, HF Categories” 		2.03 KB text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Irrigation_Districts.csv
“Consolidated irrigation districts from state sources.” 		1.76 KB text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Irrigation_Price_Mesa_County.csv
“Example of cost of irrigation price, for Mesa County, Colorado” 		210 Bytes text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Irrigation_Source_Summary.csv
“Summary of the different types of irrigation used and summarized from Buto 2014” 		92 Bytes text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Cropland_2012_Basin.csv
“Cropland data summarized by crop type for the UCRB in 2012” 		4.07 KB text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Cropland_2012_Basin_HFCategorySum.csv
“Cropland data summarized by HF categories for the UCRB in 2012” 		312 Bytes text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Cropland_2012_County.csv
“Cropland data summarized by CropLand type by county for the UCRB in 2012” 		197.66 KB text/csv
Upper_Colorado_River_Basin_Cropland_2012_County_HFCategorySum.csv
“Cropland data summarized by HF categories for the UCRB counties in 2012” 		35.79 KB text/csv

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