Water right 40A 30002022
Irrigation · Big Elk Creek · Wheatland County, Montana
Priority date
June 15, 1900
40th most senior of 79 rights on Big Elk Creek in Wheatland County
- Owner
- McFarland White Ranch INC; Montana State Board of Land Commissioners
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Big Elk Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Montgomery-Freeser Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 6.58 cfs (2,953.3 gpm)
- Volume
- 226.8 acre-feet
- Acres
- 654.1
- County
- Wheatland County
- Points of diversion
- 3 (first at 46.37464, -110.04713)
- Version
- Change Authorization
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 04/15 to 10/01
- Legal location
- T7N R13E Sec. 12 SESWSW
- 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.
- #36Aug 12, 189840A 6691 00Big Elk Creek · StockGrant D Morse; Joseph V Morse
- #37May 15, 189940A 198482 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationC Bar J Ranch LLC · 5.8 cfs
- #38May 15, 190040A 145870 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMcFarland White Ranch INC · 2.18 cfs, 302.7 AF
- #39Jun 15, 190040A 110020 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMcFarland White Ranch INC; Montana State Board of Land Commissioners · 12.5 cfs, 430.6 AF
- #40 · this right
- #41Jul 1, 190040A 145875 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMcFarland White Ranch INC · 5.83 cfs, 699.2 AF
- #42Jun 5, 190140A 189758 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMartin Ranch Co · 1 cfs
- #43Jun 15, 190140A 145871 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMcFarland White Ranch INC · 4.6 cfs, 753.6 AF
- #44Jun 15, 190140A 189757 00Big Elk Creek · IrrigationMartin Ranch Co · 2 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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