Water right 1589-1
Municipal, Industrial · Elk Creek · Lawrence County, South Dakota
Priority date
November 23, 1877
1st most senior of 6 rights on Elk Creek in Lawrence County
- Owner
- Elk Creek Water Trust INC
- Status
- Permit
- Record type
- Permit
- Source
- Elk Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Municipal, Industrial
- Flow rate
- 1.41 cfs (632.9 gpm)
- County
- Lawrence County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 44.25479, -103.77335)
- Legal location
- NW1/4NW1/4 Sec. 4-T3N-R3E
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Elk Creek
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1 · this right
- #2May 11, 1881768A-1Elk Creek · IrrigationArlene Cox · 0.44 cfs
- #3May 11, 1881768B-1Elk Creek · IrrigationPaul or Willson Anderson · 0.22 cfs
- #4May 11, 1881768C-1Elk Creek · IrrigationPeter or Linda Christeleit · 0.22 cfs
- #5Jul 21, 1961589-1Elk Creek · IrrigationMary Ann Eddy Family Trust · 1.5 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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