medium confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- September 14, 1879
- Recorded
- September 15, 1879
- Recorder
- Geo. H. Knight
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Cedar Mill Creek (also Eight Mile Creek and Twelve Mile Creek)
- Size
- 800.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation
- Diversion
- Ditch
Use Location
Multiple sections described. Lands near Cedar Mill Creek, Eight Mile Creek, and Twelve Mile Creek in Surprise Valley area. About 3 miles to Ten Mile Creek, crossing each ranch about 8 rods above the main irrigating canal.
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.
Other Claims by Joseph Burns (3)
T46N R16E S4 SW
— 1877
Not in ewrims
S14 NE
— 1878
Not in ewrims
T45N R16E S11,12,14
— 1887
Not in ewrims
Uncertain Fields
- Size Inches: Claims 800 inches total across multiple creeks
Transcription (may be incomplete)
Water Notice — Joseph Burns. Know all men by these presents that I Joseph Burns of Modoc County Cal. have this day located for the purpose of irrigation upon my lands to wit: as the NW quarter of Section 14, SW quarter of SE quarter, E half of NW quarter... all of the water at Section 6, Township 43 N R 16 E... eight hundred inches of water measured under a four inch pressure flowing in the Cedar Mill Creek... also to conduct all of said water from said creek from a point one quarter of a mile above the Forks of said Creek...
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 117
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Notes: Large claim spanning multiple creeks. Also claims 50 inches from North Fork of Eight Mile Creek, 100 inches from another branch, and additional from Ten Mile Creek. Also claims above Lake Annie. Multiple diversion points. Dated Sept 14th 1879. Very complex multi-source claim.