Water rights
Water rights in Montana’s water rights database, with holder, purpose, amount and priority date (earlier dates are senior).
About this data
- Published by
- Montana DNRC Water Resources Division
- Method
- Downloaded from the agency’s public GIS service and split into county files.
- Update frequency
- Monthly
- Last updated
- Oct 5, 2026
- Records
- 603,706
- Coverage
- Statewide.
Records in 56 of 56 counties.
Known gaps
Most points of diversion are placed from the legal description, not surveyed. Verify against the DNRC abstract.
Preview
The newest or first 500 records. Click a column heading to sort. Use the filter to find a place or a name.
Fields
| Field | Column | Description |
|---|---|---|
| County | county | |
| Water right | wr | DNRC water right number. |
| Type | ty | |
| Status | st | |
| Owner | ow | |
| Purpose | pu | |
| Priority date | pd | Earlier dates are senior. |
| Flow (cfs) | cfs | |
| Flow (gpm) | gpm | |
| Volume (acre-feet) | vol | |
| Acres | ac | |
| Source | sn | Water source name. |
| Source type | sty | |
| Means of diversion | md | |
| Township / range / section | trs | |
| Wk | wk | |
| Xy | xy | |
| Longitude | lon | WGS84 degrees. |
| Latitude | lat | WGS84 degrees. |
Downloads and links
Data 4 MT is an index of public records. It republishes only what Montana and federal agencies make public, with a link to the source on each record. People are shown as “Private individual” on public pages and downloads; companies, trusts held by institutions, and governments keep their names. No document images, sale prices, voter, MVD or wildlife-telemetry data are stored. Verify any record against the publisher’s copy before relying on it.