Water right 41J 41525 00
Irrigation · Smith River, North Fork · Meagher County, Montana
Priority date
August 27, 1895
45th 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
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Its place on Smith River, North Fork
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #41Sep 9, 188941J 30106621Smith River, North Fork · StockCastle Mountain Ranch INC
- #42Nov 23, 189141J 30112764Smith River, North Fork · StockMontana Horse Co
- #43Mar 4, 189241J 30106620Smith River, North Fork · StockCastle Mountain Ranch INC
- #44Aug 1, 189241J 30106651Smith River, North Fork · StockCastle Mountain Ranch INC
- #45 · this right
- #46Dec 31, 189541J 198708 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationSmith River Wilderness Ranch LLC · 2.23 cfs
- #47Dec 31, 189641J 30115493Smith River, North Fork · StockRandy S Mikesell
- #48Sep 29, 189741J 207283 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationCastle Mountain Ranch INC · 5 cfs
- #49Dec 31, 189841J 207282 00Smith River, North Fork · IrrigationCastle Mountain Ranch INC · 58.43 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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