Water right 76F 97654 00
Irrigation · McElwain Creek · Powell County, Montana
Priority date
June 30, 1890
11th most senior of 14 rights on McElwain Creek in Powell County
- Owner
- Bignell Ranch Co
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- McElwain Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Widener Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 5 cfs (2,244.2 gpm)
- Acres
- 861
- County
- Powell County
- Points of diversion
- 4 (first at 46.86534, -113.06462)
- Version
- Post Decree
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 04/15 to 10/15
- Legal location
- T13N R12W Sec. 24 SWNESW
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on McElwain Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #7May 30, 188376F 97656 00McElwain Creek · IrrigationBignell Ranch Co · 1.5 cfs
- #8May 15, 188876F 97678 00McElwain Creek · IrrigationBignell Ranch Co · 0.75 cfs
- #9Jun 15, 188976F 97676 00McElwain Creek · IrrigationBignell Ranch Co · 1.75 cfs
- #10May 15, 189076F 97657 00McElwain Creek · IrrigationBignell Ranch Co · 0.37 cfs
- #11 · this right
- #12Jun 30, 189576F 97658 00McElwain Creek · IrrigationBignell Ranch Co · 0.62 cfs
- #13Oct 15, 189576F 97653 00McElwain Creek · IrrigationBignell Ranch Co · 8.75 cfs
- #14Mar 16, 193876F 30142440McElwain Creek · StockUSA (Dept of Interior Bureau of Land Mgmt)
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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