Water right 553-1
Irrigation · Belle Fourche River · Meade County, South Dakota
Priority date
March 21, 1961
17th most senior of 33 rights on Belle Fourche River in Meade County
- Owner
- Richard W Kieffer
- Status
- License
- Record type
- License
- Source
- Belle Fourche River
- Kind of source
- Surface water
- Uses
- Irrigation
- Flow rate
- 2.91 cfs (1,306.1 gpm)
- Acres
- 203.7
- County
- Meade County
- Points of diversion
- 1 (first at 44.46866, -103.10305)
- Legal location
- SW1/4NW1/4 Sec. 24-T6N-R8E
See every right within a mile of this one
Its place on Belle Fourche River
Rights just ahead of and behind it in priority on the same source.
- #13Aug 31, 1959414B-1Belle Fourche River · IrrigationGlen V Schummer · 2.46 cfs
- #14Nov 7, 1959437-1Belle Fourche River · IrrigationThomas Mc Nenny Ranches INC · 5.9 cfs
- #15Nov 16, 1959440-1Belle Fourche River · IrrigationJon L & Breanna S Millar · 5 cfs
- #16Jan 8, 1960449-1Belle Fourche River · IrrigationPatrick Deering · 5 cfs
- #17 · this right
- #18Sep 6, 19771148-1Belle Fourche River · IrrigationHomestake Mining Company · 13.5 cfs
- #19Sep 6, 19771455-1Belle Fourche River · IrrigationHomestake Mining Company · 5.12 cfs
- #20Mar 31, 19821252-1Belle Fourche River · IrrigationRobert or Jennifer Weyrich · 0.64 cfs
- #21Nov 8, 19891477-1Belle Fourche River · IrrigationLynn M Fields · 2.2 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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