Water right 40A 205260 00
Irrigation · Big Elk Creek · Wheatland County, Montana
Priority date
October 15, 1927
51st most senior of 79 rights on Big Elk Creek in Wheatland County
- Owner
- M&W Ranch LLC
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Big Elk Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Sheetz Ditch No.3
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 12.5 cfs (5,610.4 gpm)
- Volume
- 785 acre-feet
- Acres
- 273
- County
- Wheatland County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 46.30256, -110.14706)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 01/01 to 12/31
- Legal location
- T6N R13E Sec. 6 NESENW
- 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.
- #47Jul 1, 191140A 205268 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationC Bar J Ranch LLC; M&W Ranch LLC; McFarland White Ranch INC · 15.43 cfs
- #48Jul 1, 191140A 6661 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationGrant D Morse · 4.88 cfs
- #49Oct 15, 192740A 189754 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMartin Ranch Co · 12.5 cfs, 4,020 AF
- #50Oct 15, 192740A 198487 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationC Bar J Ranch LLC · 25 cfs, 6,222 AF
- #51 · this right
- #52Oct 1, 192840A 42833 00Big Elk Creek · StockMontana State Board of Land Commissioners
- #53Oct 1, 193840A 6686 00Big Elk Creek · StockBig Elk Creek Ranch LLC
- #54Feb 23, 193940A 137447 00Big Elk Creek · StockMontana State Board of Land Commissioners
- #55May 31, 195940A 110038 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMcFarland White Ranch INC · 4.46 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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