Water right 41J 41524 00
Irrigation · Smith River, North Fork · Meagher County, Montana
Priority date
May 22, 1912
54th 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
- 12.1 cfs (5,439.8 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.
- #50Sep 19, 189941J 30106619Smith River, North Fork · StockCastle Mountain Ranch INC
- #51May 27, 190141J 30106618Smith River, North Fork · StockCastle Mountain Ranch INC
- #52Oct 31, 190341J 30106617Smith River, North Fork · StockCastle Mountain Ranch INC
- #53Jul 9, 190441J 128605 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationBair Co; Bair Ranch Foundation · 3.23 cfs
- #54 · this right
- #55Jun 20, 191241J 41526 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationBuckingham Ranch LLC · 6.06 cfs
- #56Jul 23, 191541J 29767 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationMontana State Board of Land Commissioners · 2.65 cfs
- #57Jan 1, 193141J 30139030Smith River, North Fork · StockBobbi Jo Fowlie
- #58Oct 5, 193541J 119372 00Smith River, North Fork · SaleMontana, State of Dept of Natural Resources · 20,571 AF
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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