Water right 41R 202759 00
Stock · Surprise Creek · Judith Basin County, Montana
Priority date
December 31, 1924
15th most senior of 22 rights on Surprise Creek in Judith Basin County
- Owner
- Traci Hill-Schmitt; Jacob D Schmitt; Kyle B Schmitt; Lindsay Schmitt; Square Butte Land & Cattle Company LLC
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Surprise Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Stock
- County
- Judith Basin County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 47.28429, -110.25319)
- Version
- Original Right
- Means of diversion
- Livestock Direct from Source
- Period of diversion
- 01/01 to 12/31
- Legal location
- T18N R12E Sec. 31 NENWNW
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Surprise Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #11Sep 1, 189941R 14574 00Surprise Creek · StockDaniel G Annala; Deidrea Annala; Abbie Skelton
- #12Dec 31, 191141R 202977 00Surprise Creek · StockBruce A Neumann
- #13Nov 22, 191241R 136104 00Surprise Creek · StockMontana State Board of Land Commissioners
- #14Dec 31, 192041R 146762 00Surprise Creek · StockDale Peterson
- #15 · this right
- #16Jul 1, 193341R 146642 00Surprise Creek · Fish and WildlifeJudith R Vejtasa; William J Vejtasa
- #17Dec 6, 194941R 14551 00Surprise Creek · StockBarbara Skelton; Bill Skelton
- #18Dec 6, 194941R 14577 00Surprise Creek · StockBarbara Skelton; Bill Skelton
- #19Sep 6, 195241R 10541 00Surprise Creek · IrrigationHills Ranch · 2.5 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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