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Claim Details
- Filed
- November 25, 1870
- Recorded
- August 15, 1894
- Recorder
- J.W. Gibbins
- Type
- Appropriation
Water Source
- Source
- Cottonwood Creek (Goose Lake Valley)
- Size
- 100.0 miner's inches
- Purpose
- Irrigation
- Diversion
- Ditch
Use Location
Possessory claim on unsurveyed Government land in Goose Lake Valley, County of Siskiyou (now Modoc). Ditch commencing on south bank of Cottonwood Creek at or near foot of the canon, running thence in a southwesterly direction across the possessory claim. Ditch capacity 100+ inches.
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: Goose Lake Valley unsurveyed in 1870
- Date Filed: Document says 'located Nov 25 1872' but 'Dated this 4th day of May 1872' and filed May 27, 1872 - appropriation date may be Nov 25, 1870 not 1872
Transcription (may be incomplete)
Water Right. Notice. Is hereby given that I, Thomas Thorpe, have on the 25th day of November A.D. 1872, located and appropriated one hundred inches of the water running in the stream known as Cottonwood Creek, situated in Goose Lake Valley in the County of Siskiyou...
Source Photos
From: Modoc County Water Claims Book 1
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Notes: SISKIYOU COUNTY TRANSCRIPTION. DATE DISCREPANCY: Text says appropriated Nov 25, 1872 but document dated May 4, 1872 and filed May 27, 1872 - chronologically impossible. Likely appropriation was Nov 25, 1870 (not 1872). Claims possessory claim on unsurveyed land. 'Quiet and undisturbed possession' since date of appropriation. Originally recorded Siskiyou County May 27, 1872 by John V. Brown, Recorder. Certified by A.P.M. Carton (McCarten), Siskiyou Recorder, Jan 8, 1877, from Book No. 1 of Water Rights pp 15-16. Re-recorded in Modoc County Aug 15, 1894 at request of N.H. Bush.