low confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- January 04, 1878
- Recorded
- January 04, 1878
- Recorder
- A. Fitzgerald
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Bogel Swamp spring
- Size
- 500.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation
Use Location
East of Goose Lake in Surprise Valley, Modoc County
State Database (eWRIMS)
Not in state DB
This water right does not appear in California's eWRIMS database. The holder likely has not filed a Statement of Diversion and Use with the State Water Resources Control Board. Pre-1914 rights are only in eWRIMS if holders voluntarily filed — many have not, making these rights less visible to the state.
Uncertain Fields
- Township: No township/range given
- Size Inches: Text says 'five hundred inches more or less'
- Source Name: Place known as 'the Bogel Swamp' — possibly 'Bogel' or 'Bogle'
Transcription
Cal. January 4th 1878. Surprise Valley, Modoc County. Know all men by these presents that we the undersigned hereby claim all of the water flowing out of the bog and spring five hundred inches more or less for the purpose of irrigation, the place known as the Bogel Swamp or any other purposes we may deem necessary. Said Spring and swamp situated east of the Goose Lake in Surprise Valley.
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 90
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Notes: Very brief claim. No ditch description, no township/range, no specific land description. Just claims water from Bogel Swamp east of Goose Lake. Witnesses not listed.