Water right 76F 97675 00
Irrigation · McElwain Creek · Powell County, Montana
Priority date
June 15, 1873
4th 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
- 1 cfs (448.8 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.
- #1Jun 15, 187276F 30130770McElwain Creek · StockBignell Ranch Co
- #2Jun 15, 187276F 97652 00McElwain Creek · IrrigationBignell Ranch Co · 1 cfs
- #3Jun 15, 187276F 97665 00McElwain Creek · StockBignell Ranch Co
- #4 · this right
- #5Jun 20, 188276F 97655 00McElwain Creek · IrrigationBignell Ranch Co · 1 cfs
- #6Jun 30, 188276F 97677 00McElwain Creek · IrrigationBignell Ranch Co · 0.63 cfs
- #7May 30, 188376F 97656 00McElwain Creek · IrrigationBignell Ranch Co · 1.5 cfs
- #8May 15, 188876F 97678 00McElwain Creek · IrrigationBignell Ranch Co · 0.75 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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