Water right 43D 31253 00
Irrigation · Bear Creek · Carbon County, Montana
Priority date
August 1, 1888
3rd most senior of 18 rights on Bear Creek in Carbon County
- Owner
- Sunlight Ranch Co
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Bear Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Bischoff Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 8.3 cfs (3,725.3 gpm)
- Acres
- 219
- County
- Carbon County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 45.15956, -109.15248)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 04/15 to 10/31
- Legal location
- T8S R21E Sec. 4 NENWSW
- 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.
- #1Aug 1, 188843D 31251 00Bear Creek · IrrigationSunlight Ranch Co · 2 cfs
- #2Aug 1, 188843D 31252 00Bear Creek · IrrigationSunlight Ranch Co · 3 cfs
- #3 · this right
- #4Apr 15, 189043D 137761 00Bear Creek · StockMontana State Board of Land Commissioners
- #5Sep 2, 190243D 31260 00Bear Creek · IrrigationSunlight Ranch Co · 3.75 cfs
- #6Jun 7, 191143D 31259 00Bear Creek · IrrigationSunlight Ranch Co · 2.5 cfs
- #7Oct 20, 191943D 31254 00Bear Creek · IrrigationSunlight Ranch Co · 1.25 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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