Water right 41S 1389 00
Irrigation · Big Spring Creek · Fergus County, Montana
Priority date
December 31, 1884
9th most senior of 102 rights on Big Spring Creek in Fergus County
- Owner
- Gardner, Pamela J Living Trust; Gardner, Russell S Living Trust
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Big Spring Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 0.94 cfs (421.9 gpm)
- Volume
- 24.7 acre-feet
- Acres
- 7
- County
- Fergus County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 47.09269, -109.45958)
- Version
- Change Authorization
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 06/01 to 09/24
- Legal location
- T15N R18E Sec. 4 SWSWNW
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Big Spring Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #5Jul 31, 188341S 30119131Big Spring Creek · StockEsther L Greek; David S Long
- #6Jun 20, 188441S 152144 00Big Spring Creek · StockDavid (Mark) Machler
- #7Jun 20, 188441S 152145 00Big Spring Creek · StockDavid (Mark) Machler
- #8Dec 31, 188441S 105520 00Big Spring Creek · IrrigationDonald F Jenni; Nancy L Jenni; Scott W Jenni; Thaddeus F Jenni · 7.95 cfs, 748 AF
- #9 · this right
- #10Apr 15, 188541S 128261 00Big Spring Creek · StockMontana State Board of Land Commissioners
- #11Apr 20, 188641S 100152 00Big Spring Creek · Irrigation, IndustrialJames E Butcher; Lynn M Butcher; Casino Creek Enterprises; Crowley Ditch Co; Kirk Donsbach; Bobbe J Donsbach-Stulc; Elaine Meier; Gene Meier; Julie Weeden; Monte Weeden · 16.2 cfs, 943.2 AF
- #12May 3, 188741S 100153 00Big Spring Creek · Irrigation, IndustrialJames E Butcher; Lynn M Butcher; Casino Creek Enterprises; Crowley Ditch Co; Kirk Donsbach; Bobbe J Donsbach-Stulc; Elaine Meier; Gene Meier; Julie Weeden; Monte Weeden · 10.55 cfs, 639.2 AF
- #13Mar 9, 188941S 104333 00Big Spring Creek · IrrigationFergus, County of · 1.59 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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