Water right 39F 174383 00
Irrigation · Finger Butte Creek · Carter County, Montana
Priority date
May 21, 1903
1st most senior of 3 rights on Finger Butte Creek in Carter County
- Owner
- Little Missouri River Ranch LLC
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Finger Butte Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Vaughn Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 52.6 cfs (23,621.9 gpm)
- Volume
- 1,361.3 acre-feet
- Acres
- 908
- County
- Carter County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 45.36186, -104.20933)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Dike
- Period of diversion
- 02/15 to 11/15
- Legal location
- T5S R61E Sec. 33 NWNWNW
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Finger Butte Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2May 21, 190339F 30153430Finger Butte Creek · IrrigationMontana State Board of Land Commissioners · 22.37 cfs, 578.7 AF
- #3Apr 15, 194039F 25787 00Finger Butte Creek · StockMontana State Board of Land Commissioners
From Montana DNRC, Water Resources Division, Water Right Query System points of diversion, 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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