Water right 41J 39897 00
Irrigation · Smith River, North Fork · Meagher County, Montana
Priority date
April 16, 1882
20th most senior of 89 rights on Smith River, North Fork in Meagher County
- Owner
- Buckingham Ranch LLC
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Smith River, North Fork
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Fred Buckingham Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 6.25 cfs (2,805.2 gpm)
- Acres
- 1,626
- County
- Meagher County
- Points of diversion
- 5 (first at 46.53840, -110.94378)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 05/01 to 10/31
- Legal location
- T9N R6E Sec. 14 SENWSW
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Smith River, North Fork
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #16Oct 31, 188041J 205336 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationLynn Jackson; Pamela M Jackson; Scott A Jackson; Shane D Sereday · 8.75 cfs
- #17Apr 30, 188141J 3201 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationEdwin L Bodell · 5 cfs
- #18May 1, 188141J 207294 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationCastle Mountain Ranch INC · 4 cfs
- #19May 2, 188141J 206211 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationSnowbank Ranch LLC · 5 cfs
- #20 · this right
- #21Apr 16, 188241J 39902 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationBuckingham Ranch LLC · 6.25 cfs
- #22May 31, 188241J 181904 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationRebecca R Hurwitz; Connie E Townsend; Lloyd Zumbrun · 5 cfs
- #23Jun 1, 188241J 21452 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationBradley J Stuckert; Suzanne M Stuckert · 3.75 cfs
- #24Jun 1, 188241J 30125072Smith River, North Fork · StockCecelia N Roma; Richard F Roma
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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