Water right 40A 189760 00
Stock · Big Elk Creek · Wheatland County, Montana
Priority date
August 20, 1889
20th most senior of 79 rights on Big Elk Creek in Wheatland County
- Owner
- Martin Ranch Co
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Big Elk Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- E.L. Shumaker Ditch
- Uses
- Stock
- County
- Wheatland County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 46.32251, -110.12082)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Ditch
- Period of diversion
- 01/01 to 12/31
- Legal location
- T7N R13E Sec. 32 NENWSE
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Big Elk Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #16May 15, 188940A 110031 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMcFarland White Ranch INC · 1 cfs
- #17May 15, 188940A 201291 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationErica Borbe; Dennis S Voss · 4.15 cfs
- #18Jun 1, 188940A 198477 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationC Bar J Ranch LLC · 1.65 cfs
- #19Jun 15, 188940A 201290 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationErica Borbe; Dennis S Voss · 1 cfs
- #20 · this right
- #21Aug 20, 188940A 201289 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationHorse Butte Ranch LLC · 4.13 cfs, 2,006.5 AF
- #22May 15, 189040A 189759 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMartin Ranch Co · 5.75 cfs
- #23Jun 1, 189040A 110021 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMcFarland White Ranch INC · 1.93 cfs
- #24Jun 15, 189040A 5026 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationM Lazy D Ltd Partnership · 4.7 cfs
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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