Water right 40R 42318 00
Irrigation · Big Muddy Creek · Sheridan County, Montana
Priority date
May 30, 1900
3rd most senior of 75 rights on Big Muddy Creek in Sheridan County
- Owner
- Gary R Nelson
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Big Muddy Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Volume
- 574.5 acre-feet
- Acres
- 370
- County
- Sheridan County
- Points of diversion
- 2 (first at 48.79740, -104.87046)
- Version
- Final
- Means of diversion
- Dike
- Period of diversion
- 01/01 to 12/31
- Legal location
- T35N R52E Sec. 11 NESWSE
- 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.
- #1Apr 15, 189840R 136174 00Big Muddy Creek · StockMontana State Board of Land Commissioners
- #2May 30, 190040R 42315 00Big Muddy Creek · StockGary R Nelson
- #3 · this right
- #4Jun 26, 190040R 169868 00Big Muddy Creek · IrrigationCloverdale Ranch INC · 382 AF
- #5Dec 31, 190040R 165832 00Big Muddy Creek · StockKevin Opsahl; Jessica Shackelford; Nathan Shackelford
- #6Feb 8, 190140R 165834 00Big Muddy Creek · IrrigationKevin Opsahl; Jessica Shackelford; Nathan Shackelford · 7.71 cfs
- #7Jul 24, 190240R 167652 00Big Muddy Creek · IrrigationLaura Christoffersen · 5.23 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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