Water right 43P 30017690
Fishery · Bighorn River · Big Horn County, Montana
Priority date
December 15, 1978
87th most senior of 133 rights on Bighorn River in Big Horn County
- Owner
- Montana, State of Dept of Fish Wildlife & Parks
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Water Reservation
- Source
- Bighorn River
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Fishery
- Flow rate
- 5,200 cfs (2,333,916 gpm)
- Volume
- 2,477,987 acre-feet
- County
- Big Horn County
- Points of diversion
- 134 (first at 46.00734, -107.51848)
- Version
- Original Right
- Means of diversion
- Instream
- Period of diversion
- 05/01 to 05/31; 06/01 to 06/30; 08/01 to 08/31; 09/01 to 09/30; 01/01 to 01/31; 03/01 to 03/31; 07/01 to 07/20; 07/21 to 07/31; 10/01 to 10/31; 04/01 to 04/30; 11/01 to 11/30; 12/01 to 12/31; 02/01 to 02/28
- Legal location
- T3N R34E Sec. 17
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Bighorn River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #83Dec 15, 197843P 30008726Bighorn River · IrrigationBig Horn Conservation District; Mission Creek Land & Cattle · 4 cfs, 179 AF
- #84Dec 15, 197843P 30008729Bighorn River · IrrigationBig Horn Conservation District; Gary Greenwalt; Linda Greenwalt · 0.94 cfs, 83.11 AF
- #85Dec 15, 197843P 30016212Bighorn River · IrrigationBig Horn Conservation District; Sunlight Ranch Co · 5.4 cfs, 648 AF
- #86Dec 15, 197843P 30016214Bighorn River · IrrigationBig Horn Conservation District; Sunlight Ranch Co · 7.8 cfs, 1,500 AF
- #87 · this right
- #88Dec 15, 197843P 30030293Bighorn River · IrrigationBig Horn Conservation District; Sunlight Ranch Co · 0.9 cfs, 112 AF
- #89Dec 15, 197843P 30041866Bighorn River · IrrigationBig Horn Conservation District; Ragland Farms INC · 2.2 cfs, 274 AF
- #90Dec 15, 197843P 30044429Bighorn River · IrrigationBig Horn Conservation District; Barbara J Yerger; John J Yerger · 6 cfs, 872 AF
- #91Dec 15, 197843P 30045429Bighorn River · IrrigationBig Horn Conservation District; Sunlight Ranch Co · 5.79 cfs, 406.9 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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