Stock wells in Baca County

1,206 of the 5,424 well permits in Baca County — 22.2% — are decreed for stock.

How this group compares

Baca County holds 3.8% of Colorado’s 31,328 stock permits, while holding 0.9% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Stock means watering livestock.

What happened to these permits

939 of the 1,206 permits decreed for stock in Baca County ended with a well the Division was told about — 77.9%. And 110 expired without one: 9.1%.

An expired permit is the trap in a rural sale. A seller can produce a permit that lapsed years ago, and a permit is not a water right — the two are separate, and a purchase turns on both. What an expired permit does and does not mean.

Buying land in Baca County, or need a well drilled?

1,206 well permits are on the Division’s register in Baca County, 110 of them expired. This site tells you what a permit says; it does not drill, and it is not advice on a water right. Tell us where and we pass the request to drillers and water-rights advisers working in Colorado.

We take no commission and we recommend no driller. We have no arrangement with any firm today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

The permits

Part of a bigger picture: all 5,424 permits in Baca County, and every stock permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Household Use Only — Rio Grande 1,399
• Irrigation — Phillips 1,345
• Domestic — Lincoln 1,331
• Stock — Las Animas 1,309
• Irrigation — Logan 1,288
• Not stated — El Paso 1,210
• Monitoring/sampling — Eagle 1,202
• Domestic — Rio Blanco 1,195
• Domestic — Otero 1,182
• Monitoring/sampling — Montrose 1,173
• Irrigation — El Paso 1,164