medium confidence
Claim Details
- Filed
- May 21, 1882
- Recorded
- June 01, 1883
- Recorder
- P.S. Chapman
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Owl Creek
- Size
- 400.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation, General Farm Use
- Diversion
- Ditch
Use Location
Multiple sections across T41N R16E and T40N R16E. Ditch from Owl Creek Canyon mouth, running easterly 1.5 miles, then NE 2 miles, then easterly to ranches.
State Database (eWRIMS)
Matched
This water right matches a record in California's eWRIMS database (100% confidence).
- Current owner
- MARY COOK DAVIS
- Right type
- Appropriative
- Status
- Licensed
- Face value
- 99.6 Acre-feet per Year
- eWRIMS source
- OWL CREEK
- Application #
- A002842
Other Claims at This Location (24)
T41N R16E — 7 matched, 5 not in eWRIMS
Thomas N. Lee
1876
Not in ewrims
Jacob Kitscher
1877
Potential
Middleton Anderson
1877
Matched
Jacob Kimerle
1879
Matched
Robert Fee
1879
Not in ewrims
F.C. Cockrell and J.M. Homback
1883
Matched
J.M. Bordwell
1884
Matched
J.S. Moore
1885
Potential
Chris Christensen
1887
Matched
William H. Patterson
1889
Potential
John B. Lindemann
1889
Not in ewrims
Joseph Danhauser and Michael Kaiser
1889
Potential
A.J. Lee
1889
Potential
George H. Morgan
1900
Matched
Lee Wall Shackelford
1901
Potential
W.E. Roberts
1904
Potential
W.E. Roberts
1904
Potential
W.S. Stevens
1909
Not in ewrims
Mrs. S.A. Linderman
1909
Matched
Edward R. Bunting
1910
Potential
Peter Erramouspe
1910
Potential
John Conklin
1911
Potential
John Conklin
1913
Not in ewrims
Daniel Arthur
1919
Potential
Uncertain Fields
- Use Location: Extensive section descriptions across multiple townships
Transcription (may be incomplete)
Notice is hereby given that we the undersigned Jacob Gilcher, James H. Schafer, Joel C. Allen, Joseph F. Deems of Surprise Valley, County of Modoc State of California do locate appropriate and claim of the water here flowing in the Creek commonly known as Owl Creek four hundred (400) inches...
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
— Page 155
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Notes: Four-claimant cooperative. Ditch already constructed (>4 feet wide, 1.5 feet deep). In use more than one year. Old stock ranch at Canyon mouth.