Water right 76H 99887 00
Irrigation · Hughes Creek · Ravalli County, Montana
Priority date
August 29, 1921
9th most senior of 15 rights on Hughes Creek in Ravalli County
- Owner
- Karen Nelsen; Lance Nelsen; Sunshine Ranch LLC
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Statement of Claim
- Source
- Hughes Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Name
- Sopher Ditch
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 0.66 cfs (296 gpm)
- Acres
- 11.9
- County
- Ravalli County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 45.60918, -114.28917)
- Version
- Original Right
- Means of diversion
- Headgate
- Period of diversion
- 05/01 to 10/31
- Legal location
- T3S R22W Sec. 2 SWNWNW
- Scanned documents
- Open
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Hughes Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #5Sep 12, 189876H 150973 00Hughes Creek · DomesticKatharine M Anderson; Matthew K Anderson · 0.03 cfs, 1.5 AF
- #6Dec 31, 190076H 151137 00Hughes Creek · DomesticSunshine Ranch LLC · 0.08 cfs, 2 AF
- #7Dec 31, 190076H 151138 00Hughes Creek · IrrigationSunshine Ranch LLC · 0.23 cfs
- #8Jul 21, 190476H 116619 00Hughes Creek · MiningLola B Grenfell · 0.67 cfs
- #9 · this right
- #10Aug 29, 192176H 99889 00Hughes Creek · StockKaren Nelsen; Lance Nelsen; Sunshine Ranch LLC
- #11Nov 18, 192576H 107426 00Hughes Creek · IrrigationPenny L Bowman; Schreiber Family Irr Trust Dtd 08/21/2025 · 0.27 cfs
- #12Nov 18, 192576H 107967 00Hughes Creek · IrrigationLittle Fork Ranch LLC · 1.5 cfs
- #13Nov 18, 192576H 99890 00Hughes Creek · Fish and WildlifeKaren Nelsen; Lance Nelsen · 0.25 cfs, 17 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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