Water right 40A 201292 00
Irrigation · Big Elk Creek · Wheatland County, Montana
Priority date
April 30, 1888
12th most senior of 79 rights on Big Elk Creek in Wheatland County
- Owner
- Horse Butte Ranch LLC
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Big Elk Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Fox Replacement (West Bank) Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 6.95 cfs (3,119.4 gpm)
- Volume
- 3,004.4 acre-feet
- Acres
- 522.4
- County
- Wheatland County
- Points of diversion
- 2 (first at 46.35118, -110.03114)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 01/01 to 12/31
- Legal location
- T7N R13E Sec. 24 NENESE
- 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.
- #8May 19, 188740A 30120207Big Elk Creek · StockM&W Ranch LLC; McFarland White Ranch INC
- #9Jun 1, 188740A 198480 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationC Bar J Ranch LLC · 1.65 cfs
- #10Jun 30, 188740A 198479 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationC Bar J Ranch LLC · 1.25 cfs
- #11Apr 20, 188840A 198478 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationC Bar J Ranch LLC · 5.43 cfs
- #12 · this right
- #13May 15, 188840A 5027 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationGrant D Morse · 1.4 cfs
- #14Jun 1, 188840A 110019 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMcFarland White Ranch INC · 1 cfs
- #15May 1, 188940A 110026 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMcFarland White Ranch INC · 2.3 cfs
- #16May 15, 188940A 110031 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMcFarland White Ranch INC · 1 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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