Water right 40A 34950 00
Irrigation · Musselshell River, South Fork · Meagher County, Montana
Priority date
August 10, 1884
12th most senior of 51 rights on Musselshell River, South Fork in Meagher County
- Owner
- 71 Ranch LP
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Smith Sheep Co Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 6.4 cfs (2,872.5 gpm)
- Acres
- 128
- County
- Meagher County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 46.45585, -110.38268)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 04/01 to 10/15
- Legal location
- T8N R11E Sec. 17 NESWNW
- Scanned documents
- Open
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Its place on Musselshell River, South Fork
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #8Jul 15, 188040A 22967 00Musselshell River, South Fork · IrrigationNancy J Luth; Carl E Rostad · 5.98 cfs
- #9Jun 19, 188440A 203067 00Musselshell River, South Fork · IrrigationChristopher E Colson; John R Colson; Tice Ranch LLC · 2.5 cfs
- #10Jul 31, 188440A 203066 00Musselshell River, South Fork · IrrigationTice Ranch LLC · 12.5 cfs
- #11Aug 10, 188440A 205647 00Musselshell River, South Fork · Irrigation71 Ranch LP · 31.1 cfs, 1,173 AF
- #12 · this right
- #13Apr 10, 188540A 202967 00Musselshell River, South Fork · IrrigationGrande Ranch Co · 1.4 cfs
- #14Apr 10, 188540A 207534 00Musselshell River, South Fork · IrrigationTg Ranchland LLC · 1 cfs
- #15Sep 14, 188640A 145842 00Musselshell River, South Fork · IrrigationNine-F Ranch Co INC · 14.22 cfs
- #16Oct 15, 188740A 105786 00Musselshell River, South Fork · IrrigationBair Co; Bair Ranch Foundation · 6.97 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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