Water right 0542-1
Irrigation · Bear Butte Creek · Meade County, South Dakota
Priority date
May 12, 1896
3rd most senior of 6 rights on Bear Butte Creek in Meade County
- Owner
- Martin Johnson
- Status
- Permit
- Record type
- Permit
- Source
- Bear Butte Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 6 cfs (2,693 gpm)
- County
- Meade County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 44.46869, -103.32500)
- Legal location
- SW1/4NW1/4 Sec. 19-T6N-R7E
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Bear Butte Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1Apr 7, 18920502-1Bear Butte Creek · IrrigationHenry & Steve Bruch · 8 cfs
- #2Feb 28, 18940545-1Bear Butte Creek · IrrigationEarl Bachand
- #3 · this right
- #4Jul 27, 1967812-1Bear Butte Creek · IrrigationR0Ss Lamphere · 3.1 cfs
- #5Oct 23, 19701214-1Bear Butte Creek · IrrigationBenny Bachand · 0.89 cfs
- #6Oct 12, 1973996-1Bear Butte Creek · IrrigationBruce Weyrich · 0.25 cfs
From South Dakota DANR, Water Rights Program, Water rights web map export (CSV), 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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