Water right 40B 104249 00
Irrigation · Bear Creek · Fergus County, Montana
Priority date
April 12, 1916
12th most senior of 30 rights on Bear Creek in Fergus County
- Owner
- Janet E Rife
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Bear Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 4.7 cfs (2,109.5 gpm)
- Acres
- 188
- County
- Fergus County
- Points of diversion
- 3 (first at 47.26364, -109.03251)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 04/01 to 10/15
- Legal location
- T17N R21E Sec. 3 NWNESW
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Bear Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #8Jun 10, 190740B 207657 00Bear Creek · IrrigationJerry Knerr · 296 AF
- #9Jun 10, 190740B 207659 00Bear Creek · IrrigationJerry Knerr · 296 AF
- #10Jun 10, 190740B 207661 00Bear Creek · IrrigationJerry Knerr; Lori E Murnion; Rex A Murnion · 4.44 cfs
- #11Jun 10, 190740B 30103823Bear Creek · StockMontana State Board of Land Commissioners
- #12 · this right
- #13Apr 12, 191640B 104262 00Bear Creek · StockJanet E Rife
- #14Dec 31, 192940B 30138322Bear Creek · StockBear Creek Land & Cattle Co LLC
- #15Apr 1, 193440B 104252 00Bear Creek · IrrigationJanet E Rife · 3.93 cfs
- #16Apr 1, 193440B 104256 00Bear Creek · IrrigationJanet E Rife · 5.68 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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