Water right 41J 41522 00
Irrigation · Smith River, North Fork · Meagher County, Montana
Priority date
December 31, 1873
2nd 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
- 1.5 cfs (673.2 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.
- #1May 3, 187341J 30135985Smith River, North Fork · StockBuckingham Ranch LLC
- #2 · this right
- #3Dec 31, 187441J 44679 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationTownsend Ranch LLC · 3.75 cfs
- #4Aug 30, 187641J 44680 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationTownsend Ranch LLC · 11.25 cfs
- #5Jun 30, 187741J 38505 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationRandy S Mikesell · 2.5 cfs
- #6Jul 31, 187741J 216301 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationRandy S Mikesell · 3.12 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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