Water right 1598-1
Irrigation · Spearfish Creek · Lawrence County, South Dakota
Priority date
November 12, 1917
14th most senior of 18 rights on Spearfish Creek in Lawrence County
- Owner
- City of Spearfish
- Status
- License
- Record type
- License
- Source
- Spearfish Creek
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 2.52 cfs (1,131.1 gpm)
- Acres
- 183.8
- County
- Lawrence County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 44.43649, -103.87666)
- Legal location
- NW1/4SE1/4 Sec. 33-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.
- #10Jul 31, 18851394-1Spearfish Creek · IrrigationKemper Ditch · 23 cfs
- #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
- #14 · this right
- #15Mar 1, 1919141-1Spearfish Creek · MunicipalCity of Spearfish · 1.1 cfs
- #16Apr 1, 19201416-1Spearfish Creek · IrrigationBernice G Cundy Trust · 0.2 cfs
- #17Jan 27, 1930148-1Spearfish Creek · MunicipalCity of Spearfish · 1.5 cfs
- #18Feb 19, 19371041-1Spearfish Creek · Fish and Wildlife PropagationUS Fish/Wildlife Service · 6.66 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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