Water right 42J 9837 00
Irrigation · Lightning Creek · Powder River County, Montana
Priority date
December 31, 1946
3rd most senior of 4 rights on Lightning Creek in Powder River County
- Owner
- Padlock Ranch Co
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Powder River Declaration
- Source
- Lightning Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Volume
- 24 acre-feet
- Acres
- 32
- County
- Powder River County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 45.45815, -104.98789)
- Version
- Original Right
- Means of diversion
- Diversion Dam
- Period of diversion
- 01/01 to 12/31
- Legal location
- T4S R54E Sec. 25 SESWSE
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Lightning Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1Dec 31, 194242J 878 00Lightning Creek · StockNina Schaffer · 1.6 AF
- #2Dec 31, 194642J 9836 00Lightning Creek · IrrigationMontana State Board of Land Commissioners · 31.7 AF
- #3 · this right
- #4Jan 17, 197942J 21664 00Lightning Creek · IrrigationGilger, D D Ranch · 127.5 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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