Water right 40R 168643 00
Irrigation · Big Muddy Creek · Sheridan County, Montana
Priority date
May 2, 1957
54th most senior of 75 rights on Big Muddy Creek in Sheridan County
- Owner
- Willard J Michels
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Big Muddy Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Volume
- 450 acre-feet
- Acres
- 300
- County
- Sheridan County
- Points of diversion
- 2 (first at 48.73863, -104.51242)
- Version
- Final
- Means of diversion
- Dike
- Period of diversion
- 01/01 to 12/31
- Legal location
- T35N R55E Sec. 34 SWSW
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Big Muddy Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #50Oct 23, 195140R 16581 00Big Muddy Creek · IrrigationBrian A Holtan; Randy H Holtan · 1.84 cfs
- #51Oct 23, 195140R 30063610Big Muddy Creek · IrrigationBrian A Holtan; Randy H Holtan · 0.48 cfs
- #52Apr 1, 195240R 30117095Big Muddy Creek · StockWilliam D Bakken
- #53Jun 4, 195640R 166317 00Big Muddy Creek · IrrigationFrank J Hoffart; Kathy Hoffart; Jeffrey Lindblom; Darin A Michels; Douglas M Michels · 7.35 cfs
- #54 · this right
- #55Sep 20, 195740R 20387 00Big Muddy Creek · IrrigationArthun Land LLC; Nathe Ranch · 8.5 cfs
- #56Sep 20, 195740R 20388 00Big Muddy Creek · StockArthun Land LLC; Nathe Ranch
- #57Sep 20, 195740R 20389 00Big Muddy Creek · StockArthun Land LLC
- #58Jan 27, 195840R 4244 00Big Muddy Creek · IrrigationConnie M Wangerin; Randy A Wangerin; Scott D Wangerin · 5.17 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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