Water right 1394-1
Irrigation · Spearfish Creek · Lawrence County, South Dakota
Priority date
July 31, 1885
10th most senior of 18 rights on Spearfish Creek in Lawrence County
- Owner
- Kemper Ditch
- Status
- License
- Record type
- License
- Source
- Spearfish Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 23 cfs (10,323.1 gpm)
- Acres
- 476.6
- County
- Lawrence County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 44.56631, -103.88816)
- Legal location
- NW1/4SW1/4 Sec. 16-T7N-R2E
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Spearfish Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #6Mar 20, 18771386-1Spearfish Creek · Irrigation, DomesticWalton-Schuler Ditch Company · 8.5 cfs
- #7Jun 11, 18771388-1Spearfish Creek · IrrigationBowman Ditch · 8 cfs
- #8Mar 21, 18781392-1Spearfish Creek · IrrigationMann Ditch · 1.45 cfs
- #9Jun 15, 18811399-1Spearfish Creek · IrrigationCook-Burns Ditch Company · 17.8 cfs
- #10 · this right
- #11Jul 31, 18851917-1Spearfish Creek · IrrigationLorraine I Kissack · 1 cfs
- #12Jun 9, 1917137A-1Spearfish Creek · Fish and Wildlife PropagationDept of Game Fish & Parks
- #13Nov 12, 1917138-1Spearfish Creek · MunicipalCity of Spearfish · 0.5 cfs
- #14Nov 12, 19171598-1Spearfish Creek · IrrigationCity of Spearfish · 2.52 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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