Water right 41J 39895 00
Irrigation · Big Birch Creek · Meagher County, Montana
Priority date
October 31, 1940
24th most senior of 30 rights on Big Birch Creek in Meagher County
- Owner
- Buckingham Ranch LLC
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Big Birch Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Fred Buckingham Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 10 cfs (4,488.3 gpm)
- Acres
- 331
- County
- Meagher County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 46.51887, -111.16285)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 05/01 to 10/01
- Legal location
- T9N R4E Sec. 24 SWSESE
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Big Birch Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #20Mar 1, 191041J 39894 00Big Birch Creek · IrrigationBuckingham Ranch LLC · 1.14 cfs
- #21Sep 28, 191941J 132340 00Big Birch Creek · IrrigationMichael Porter Family Trust · 12 cfs, 450 AF
- #22Dec 31, 191941J 41499 00Big Birch Creek · IrrigationMargaret A Buckingham; Stephen G Buckingham · 4.9 cfs
- #23Jun 24, 192441J 17675 00Big Birch Creek · IrrigationGalt Ranch LP · 0.76 cfs
- #24 · this right
- #25Jan 1, 194141J 105588 00Big Birch Creek · StockUpper Birch Creek LLC; Walter Family Investments LLC
- #26Jan 1, 194141J 105589 00Big Birch Creek · Multiple DomesticUpper Birch Creek LLC; Walter Family Investments LLC · 0.01 cfs, 1.5 AF
- #27Jul 1, 195641J 39892 00Big Birch Creek · IrrigationBuckingham Ranch LLC · 4.73 cfs
- #28Nov 28, 195841J 198901 00Big Birch Creek · IrrigationKeyhole Cattle Co · 12.32 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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