A-2276
Irrigation · Bear Creek · Cherry County, Nebraska
Priority date
July 12, 1932
1st most senior of 6 rights on Bear Creek in Cherry County
- Owner
- John R & Ingrid S Fairhead
- Status
- Active
- Record type
- Surface water appropriation
- Source
- Bear Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 6.5 cfs (2,917.4 gpm)
- Volume
- 1,368.6 acre-feet
- Acres
- 456.2
- County
- Cherry County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 42.93961, -101.73374)
- Administrative notice
- Open (effective 2026-10-01)
- Flow type
- Direct Flow
- Natural resources district
- Middle Niobrara
- Legal location
- SE NE S12 T34N-R38W
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Bear Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2Nov 4, 1941A-3529Bear Creek · StorageNebraska Game & Parks Commission · 316 AF
- #3Feb 13, 1962A-10013Bear Creek · IrrigationTom & Karen Schlack · 0.58 cfs, 121.8 AF
- #4Dec 27, 1976A-14609Bear Creek · IrrigationShane & Heather Wobig · 0.86 cfs, 180 AF
- #5Mar 20, 1978A-15208Bear Creek · StorageShane & Heather Wobig · 3.95 AF
From Nebraska Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, Surface water rights diversions + registered groundwater wells, fetched October 8, 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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