File 4098
Irrigation · Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River) · Ellsworth County, Kansas
Priority date
May 23, 1955
2nd most senior of 7 rights on Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River) in Ellsworth County
- Water use correspondent
- Tom Buffington
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Appropriation right
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 700 gpm (1.56 cfs)
- Volume
- 104 acre-feet
- County
- Ellsworth County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 38.61016, -97.93180)
- River basin
- Smoky Hill River
- Aquifer
- None
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River)
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1Jun 28, 1945File EW 10Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River) · IrrigationJohn L & Danielle Jo Kasper · 340 gpm, 12 AF
- #2 · this right
- #3Aug 16, 1955File 4392Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River) · IrrigationJohnson 4K Farms LLC · 1,000 gpm, 80 AF
- #4Jul 27, 1964File 10207Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River) · IrrigationDarrel & Mari Loder · 1,100 gpm, 120 AF
- #5Feb 11, 1976File 25803Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River) · IrrigationRobert D Jr & Julie A Nienke · 1,000 gpm, 90 AF
- #6Jan 15, 2020File 50334Smoky Hill River (Smoky Hill River) · RecreationKansas Dept of Wildlife & Parks
From Kansas Department of Agriculture, Division of Water Resources, WIMAS points of diversion (active water rights), fetched October 12, 2026. The state's own record is the authority: amounts, owners and status here can lag behind it, and a mapped point of diversion says nothing about which parcel the right serves. This page is not legal advice.
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