Water right 359-3
Irrigation · James River · Yankton County, South Dakota
Priority date
December 6, 1956
3rd most senior of 13 rights on James River in Yankton County
- Owner
- Richard a & Julie a Smith Revocable Trust
- Status
- License
- Record type
- License
- Source
- James River
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 3 cfs (1,346.5 gpm)
- Acres
- 386.6
- County
- Yankton County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 42.95507, -97.34381)
- Legal location
- Sec. 16-T94N-R55W
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on James River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1May 11, 1956193-3James River · IrrigationFrank R Yaggie · 1.14 cfs
- #2Jul 30, 1956230-3James River · IrrigationJ & J Farming Company LLC · 1.55 cfs
- #3 · this right
- #4Jan 16, 1957393-3James River · IrrigationLarry Lane · 0.91 cfs
- #5Aug 3, 1957493-3James River · IrrigationFrank R Yaggie · 0.49 cfs
- #6Mar 7, 1958521-3James River · IrrigationDan Hacecky · 3 cfs
- #7Mar 26, 19631026-3James River · IrrigationRobert L Weverstad · 1.23 cfs
From South Dakota DANR, Water Rights Program, Water rights web map export (CSV), fetched October 8, 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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