Water right 40B 123544 00
Irrigation · McDonald Creek · Petroleum County, Montana
Priority date
March 31, 1946
23rd most senior of 39 rights on McDonald Creek in Petroleum County
- Owner
- Phillip Copelan
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- McDonald Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 5.87 cfs (2,634.6 gpm)
- Volume
- 300 acre-feet
- Acres
- 140
- County
- Petroleum County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 46.99674, -108.44570)
- Version
- Original Right
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 03/01 to 07/31
- Legal location
- T14N R26E Sec. 8 NWNENE
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on McDonald Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #19Apr 15, 191940B 137691 00McDonald Creek · StockMontana State Board of Land Commissioners
- #20Dec 31, 193140B 15511 00McDonald Creek · IrrigationDon S Whisonant; Robert J Whisonant · 0.49 cfs
- #21Jul 11, 193540B 30141870McDonald Creek · StockUSA (Dept of Interior Bureau of Land Mgmt)
- #22Dec 31, 194540B 199598 00McDonald Creek · IrrigationR&R II LLC · 0.86 cfs
- #23 · this right
- #24Jun 10, 194740B 30138392McDonald Creek · StockNathan Murnion; Tara L Murnion
- #25May 30, 194840B 204404 00McDonald Creek · IrrigationDon S Whisonant; Robert J Whisonant · 0.76 cfs
- #26May 1, 195040B 205740 00McDonald Creek · IrrigationEarl Zimmerman; Gregory A Zimmerman; Jennifer M Zimmerman; Rosemary Zimmerman · 5 cfs
- #27Jun 1, 195040B 113082 00McDonald Creek · IrrigationDon S Whisonant; Robert J Whisonant · 1.14 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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