In the United States an irrigation district is a cooperative, self-governing public corporation set up as a subdivision of the State government, with definite geographic boundaries, organized, and having taxing power to obtain and distribute water for irrigation of lands within the district; created under the authority of a State legislature with the consent of a designated fraction of the landowners or citizens.
It is a special-purpose district created by statute in order to develop large irrigation projects.These districts have the power to tax, borrow, and condemn.[1]
| State | District | Founded | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fresno Irrigation District | 1920 | Distribution canals in the Fresno County | ||
| 1911 | Distribution canals in the Imperial Valley | |||
| Turlock Irrigation District | 1887 | First Irrigation District in California | ||
| Merced Irrigation District | 1919 | Distribution canals in the Merced County | ||
| 1921 | Nevada County and portions of Placer and Yuba Counties | |||
| 1909 | Southern San Joaquin County | |||
| 1952 | San Joaquin, Kings, and Fresno Counties | |||
| 1918 | Supports agriculture in Lyon County and Churchill County | |||
| 1949 | Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964 | |||
| 1925 | Rio Grande in the Albuquerque Basin section | |||
| 1914 | Great Miami River and its tributaries | |||
| 1933 | Muskingum River Watershed | |||
| 1918 | Provides irrigation water for Central Oregon | |||
| Tumalo Irrigation District | 1922 | Provides irrigation water for Tumalo | ||
| 1951 | Mainly operates in Salt Lake County.[2] Called Salt Lake County Water Conservancy District until 1999 | |||
| 1910[3] | Delivers irrigation water to farmland in the Columbia Basin |