North Poudre Irrigation Company
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
North Poudre Irrigation Company Oral History Collection
Collection
Identifier: WNPI
Abstract
The North Poudre Irrigation Company has supplied water in northern Colorado for over one hundred years. Incorporated in 1901, the company founded the sugar-beet farming community of Wellington in 1903 and currently manages more than 22 storage reservoirs and approximately 200 miles of ditches. This collection primarily consists of eleven oral histories with company officials. It reflects the history of this local irrigation enterprise and the evolution of agricultural and municipal water use...
Dates:
1992-1994
Papers of Fannie Cunningham
Collection
Identifier: WCUN
Abstract
Frances "Fannie" Schelt Cunningham (1872-1967) graduated from Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State University) in 1895. Following college, she taught in local public schools until she married Frank Cunningham in 1903. The collection documents her college studies, along with some of her later writing on topics including westward expansion, local pioneers, and the western landscape. Cunningham also photographed landscapes, rivers, canyons, and ditches in northern Colorado,...
Dates:
1892-1965; Majority of material found within 1892-1927
Papers of James F. Ruff
Collection
Identifier: WRUF
Abstract
Jim Ruff (1937-2024) had a long career as a civil engineering professor at Colorado State University and as a consultant with a focus on hydraulic engineering. The collection documents Dr. Ruff's teaching, research, consulting work, and publications. The collection includes reports, articles, letters, drawings, maps, newspaper clippings, reference materials, data, slides, photographs, videotapes, and computer media.
Dates:
1928-2015; Majority of material found within 1964-1997
Papers of Scott Hummer
Collection
Identifier: WBRB
Abstract
Scott Hummer (b. 1959) worked in Colorado water resources administration and management for more than 30 years, with his longest position being as the first full-time water commissioner for the Blue River Basin (Water District 36). This collection primarily documents that work, emphasizing visual depictions of the Blue River, a tributary of the Colorado River. The collection includes photographs of the river and tributaries, reservoirs and tarns, headgates, diversion systems, high-water...
Dates:
1885-2023; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2011
Records of the North Poudre Irrigation Company
Collection
Identifier: WNPR
Abstract
Since 1901, the North Poudre Irrigation Company (NPIC) has supplied water to Northern Colorado's Boxelder Creek Valley farmers and ranchers through its system of canals and reservoirs. Today, the company owns nineteen reservoirs and approximately 200 miles of ditches and laterals. The company's activities and system are documented through a variety of material types including annual reports, stock certificates, financial records, legal documents, engineering reports, correspondence, meeting...
Dates:
1880-2009; Majority of material found within 1901-2005
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Photographs 4
- Cache la Poudre River (Colo.) 3
- Larimer County (Colo.) 3
- Water resources development -- Colorado 3
- Fort Collins (Colo.) 2
- Irrigation -- Colorado 2
- Maps 2
- Water-supply -- Colorado 2
- Aerial photographs 1
- Audiocassettes 1
- Blue River Watershed (Colo.) 1
- Boxelder Valley (Wyo. and Colo.) 1
- Cheyenne (Wyo.) 1
- Compact discs 1
- Dams 1
- Ditches -- Colorado 1
- Drawings (visual works) 1
- Floppy disks 1
- Hydraulic engineering 1
- Irrigation canals and flumes -- Colorado 1
- Irrigation engineering 1
- Negatives 1
- Oral history 1
- Reservoirs -- Colorado 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Slides (photographs) 1
- Videotapes 1
- Water -- Study and teaching 1
- Water resources development 1
- Water rights -- Colorado 1
- Water-supply -- Management 1
- Weld County (Colo.) 1
- Wellington (Colo.) 1
- Women college graduates 1
- Women teachers 1 + ∧ less
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