Water right 40H 48311 00
Stock · Big Sandy Creek · Chouteau County, Montana
Priority date
January 1, 1935
25th most senior of 30 rights on Big Sandy Creek in Chouteau County
- Owner
- Keith J Smelser; Valerie J Smelser
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Big Sandy Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Stock
- County
- Chouteau County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 48.14840, -109.91831)
- Version
- Final
- Means of diversion
- Livestock Direct from Source
- Period of diversion
- 01/01 to 12/31
- Legal location
- T28N R14E Sec. 27 SESWSW
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Big Sandy Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #21Mar 22, 191340H 30030398Big Sandy Creek · StockJessica L Sheehy; Jonathan L Sheehy; Kimberly A Sheehy; Thomas J Sheehy
- #22Mar 13, 191540H 30030400Big Sandy Creek · StockJanet K Sheehy
- #23Oct 7, 191740H 158874 00Big Sandy Creek · StockHarvey L Keller
- #24Dec 31, 191840H 144253 00Big Sandy Creek · MunicipalBig Sandy, Town of · 0.22 cfs, 32 AF
- #25 · this right
- #26Jan 1, 193540H 48314 00Big Sandy Creek · StockKeith J Smelser; Valerie J Smelser
- #27Jul 6, 194140H 159320 00Big Sandy Creek · IrrigationChauvet Ranch Co; Chauvet Real Estate LLC; Chauvet, Scott M Revocable Trust; Chauvet, Shelley L Revocable Trust
- #28Jul 6, 194140H 199783 00Big Sandy Creek · IrrigationClete Ophus · 5 cfs
- #29Dec 31, 195140H 199781 00Big Sandy Creek · StockClete Ophus · 5 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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