Water right 43QJ 206796 00
Irrigation · Yellowstone River · Stillwater County, Montana
Priority date
September 8, 1883
1st most senior of 72 rights on Yellowstone River in Stillwater County
- Owner
- Merrill Ditch Co
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Yellowstone River
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Merrill-Columbus Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 35 cfs (15,709.1 gpm)
- Acres
- 1,487.3
- County
- Stillwater County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 45.68693, -109.43748)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 04/15 to 11/01
- Legal location
- T2S R19E Sec. 6 W2NWSW
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Yellowstone River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2Sep 11, 188343QJ 10198 00Yellowstone River · IrrigationBig Ditch Co INC; High Ditch Co INC · 650 cfs
- #3Sep 11, 188343QJ 38235 00Yellowstone River · StockBig Ditch Co INC; High Ditch Co INC
- #4Aug 22, 188643QJ 48595 00Yellowstone River · IrrigationItalian Ditch Co INC · 75.18 cfs
- #5Aug 22, 188643QJ 48596 00Yellowstone River · StockItalian Ditch Co INC
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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