Water right 41J 39896 00
Irrigation · Big Birch Creek · Meagher County, Montana
Priority date
September 8, 1899
16th 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
- 3.2 cfs (1,436.3 gpm)
- Acres
- 84.6
- County
- Meagher County
- Points of diversion
- 2 (first at 46.51886, -111.16547)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 05/01 to 10/01
- Legal location
- T9N R4E Sec. 24 SESWSE
- 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.
- #12Nov 15, 189141J 181880 00Big Birch Creek · IrrigationGalt Ranch LP · 17.5 cfs
- #13Jun 12, 189641J 181884 00Big Birch Creek · IrrigationGalt Ranch LP · 14.4 cfs
- #14Nov 22, 189741J 181869 00Big Birch Creek · IrrigationGalt Ranch LP · 5 cfs
- #15Sep 8, 189941J 30135983Big Birch Creek · StockBuckingham Ranch LLC
- #16 · this right
- #17Jun 10, 190041J 30134497Big Birch Creek · StockGalt Ranch LP
- #18Apr 15, 190541J 34948 00Big Birch Creek · IrrigationMontana State Board of Land Commissioners · 0.5 cfs
- #19Nov 5, 190641J 181870 00Big Birch Creek · IrrigationGalt Ranch LP · 12.5 cfs
- #20Mar 1, 191041J 39894 00Big Birch Creek · IrrigationBuckingham Ranch LLC · 1.14 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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