Water right 43B 23570 00
Irrigation · Bear Creek · Park County, Montana
Priority date
December 31, 1953
7th most senior of 14 rights on Bear Creek in Park County
- Owner
- USA (Dept of Agriculture Forest Service)
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Bear Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Bigelow-Chapman Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 2.5 cfs (1,122.1 gpm)
- Acres
- 70
- County
- Park County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 45.06223, -110.64053)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 05/01 to 12/01
- Legal location
- T9S R9E Sec. 8 SWNESE
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Bear Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #3Dec 31, 194943B 7137 00Bear Creek · IrrigationChapman Family Trust · 0.27 cfs
- #4Jul 19, 195143B 59771 00Bear Creek · CommercialUSA (Dept of Agriculture Forest Service) · 0.1 cfs, 0.4 AF
- #5Dec 31, 195343B 20810 00Bear Creek · StockUSA (Dept of Agriculture Forest Service)
- #6Dec 31, 195343B 20813 00Bear Creek · IrrigationUSA (Dept of Agriculture Forest Service) · 5 cfs
- #7 · this right
- #8Dec 31, 195343B 23571 00Bear Creek · StockUSA (Dept of Agriculture Forest Service)
- #9May 15, 196043B 194396 00Bear Creek · IrrigationBrett Athas; Montana Lindstrom; Colleen Whitish · 0.18 cfs
- #10Dec 29, 196943B 8936 00Bear Creek · IrrigationGlenn H Snoeyenbos; Janet Snoeyenbos · 1.25 cfs, 93.6 AF
- #11Dec 15, 197843B 30017685Bear Creek · FisheryMontana, State of Dept of Fish Wildlife & Parks · 322 cfs, 44,814 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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