Water right 1400-1
Irrigation · Spearfish Creek · Lawrence County, South Dakota
Priority date
March 1, 1877
5th most senior of 18 rights on Spearfish Creek in Lawrence County
- Owner
- Owens-Gay Ditch
- Status
- License
- Record type
- License
- Source
- Spearfish Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 1.74 cfs (781 gpm)
- Acres
- 61
- County
- Lawrence County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 44.48313, -103.86268)
- Legal location
- SE1/4NW1/4 Sec. 15-T6N-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.
- #1May 1, 18761387-1Spearfish Creek · IrrigationSpearfish Tonn-Evans Ditch Co · 14.4 cfs
- #2May 1, 18761389-1Spearfish Creek · IrrigationCook Ditch Company · 21.6 cfs
- #3May 1, 18761389A-1Spearfish Creek · IrrigationCook Ditch Company
- #4Oct 1, 18761403-1Spearfish Creek · IrrigationRamsdell Ditch · 2 cfs
- #5 · this right
- #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
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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