Water right 4969-3
Irrigation · Big Sioux River · Lincoln County, South Dakota
Priority date
July 11, 1983
3rd most senior of 6 rights on Big Sioux River in Lincoln County
- Owner
- John Gilman
- Status
- License
- Record type
- License
- Source
- Big Sioux River
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 1.78 cfs (798.9 gpm)
- Acres
- 271
- County
- Lincoln County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 43.09629, -96.46362)
- Legal location
- NE1/4NW1/4 Sec. 36-T96N-R48W
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Big Sioux River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #1Nov 6, 19671454-3Big Sioux River · IrrigationJohn T/Melissa R Schutte · 2.03 cfs
- #2Apr 11, 19752255-3Big Sioux River · IrrigationJames H Cole · 1.83 cfs
- #3 · this right
- #4Mar 28, 19845018-3Big Sioux River · RecreationLyon & Sioux RWS INC
- #5May 15, 20006192-3Big Sioux River · IrrigationLorrie L Schwan-Okerlund · 0.14 cfs
- #6Jul 1, 20228642-3Big Sioux River · IrrigationJohn T & Melissa Schutte · 2.03 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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