Water right 41I 40041 00
Irrigation · Prickly Pear Creek · Lewis and Clark County, Montana
Priority date
April 6, 1866
34th most senior of 158 rights on Prickly Pear Creek in Lewis and Clark County
- Owner
- Chase Godecke; Elliette Godecke; Douglas Ludtke; Julie Ludtke; Cindy R Merkel; John B Merkel; Laurel M Schmeltzer; Sam R Schmeltzer
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Prickly Pear Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Prickly Pear Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 4.6 cfs (2,064.6 gpm)
- Acres
- 575
- County
- Lewis and Clark County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 46.59589, -111.92644)
- Version
- Reexamined
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 04/01 to 10/31
- Legal location
- T10N R3W Sec. 25 SESENW
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Prickly Pear Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #30Apr 6, 186641I 193379 01Prickly Pear Creek · IrrigationMarvin E Randash; Susan E Randash · 0.56 cfs
- #31Apr 6, 186641I 193379 02Prickly Pear Creek · IrrigationCarol S Shute; David L Shute · 0.33 cfs
- #32Apr 6, 186641I 30027200Prickly Pear Creek · IrrigationMatthew Clinch · 0.44 cfs
- #33Apr 6, 186641I 37805 00Prickly Pear Creek · IrrigationR & D Partners LLC · 0.61 cfs
- #34 · this right
- #35Apr 6, 186641I 89203 00Prickly Pear Creek · IrrigationArthur R Clinch · 0.44 cfs
- #36Apr 8, 186641I 1182 00Prickly Pear Creek · IrrigationRaye D Vincent; Timothy E Vincent · 1.25 cfs
- #37Apr 8, 186641I 127790 00Prickly Pear Creek · Marketing for Mitigation/Aquifer Recharge, IrrigationCentennial Livestock INC; Leanne Novak; Patrick J Novak; Schendel, Peter & Marilyn Trust; Schmeltzer Rentals LLC · 4.6 cfs, 915.5 AF
- #38Apr 8, 186641I 127795 00Prickly Pear Creek · StockJean M Horne; John L Horne; Tamara B Laib; Leanne Novak; Patrick J Novak; Schendel, Peter & Marilyn Trust; Schmeltzer Rentals LLC
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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