Water right 1176-1
Irrigation · Whitewood Creek · Butte County, South Dakota
Priority date
August 10, 1978
5th most senior of 7 rights on Whitewood Creek in Butte County
- Owner
- Larry & Debbie Ellsbury
- Status
- Incorporated
- Record type
- Incorporated
- Source
- Whitewood Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 2.16 cfs (969.5 gpm)
- Acres
- 151
- County
- Butte County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 44.60960, -103.50546)
- Legal location
- NW1/4SW1/4 Sec. 34-T8N-R5E
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Whitewood Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1May 15, 18880406-1Whitewood Creek · IrrigationCurtis Willey · 10 cfs
- #2Aug 26, 18890304-1Whitewood Creek · IrrigationAndrew Rosander · 20 cfs
- #3Aug 18, 1961611-1Whitewood Creek · IrrigationNeil & Faith Shuck · 2.6 cfs
- #4Aug 18, 1961611A-1Whitewood Creek · IrrigationNeil & Faith Shuck · 2.6 cfs
- #5 · this right
- #6Aug 10, 19781176A-1Whitewood Creek · IrrigationWyodak Ranches LLC · 2.16 cfs
- #7Aug 15, 19791190-1Whitewood Creek · IrrigationNeil Shuck · 1.67 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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