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Well permits in Cheyenne County

2,133 well permits — 0.4% of Colorado’s register. The median well here is 72 feet deep, against 148 feet statewide.

2,133Permits
72 ftMedian depth
293Expired
0Denver Basin aquifer

How deep people drill in Cheyenne County

This is the part a buyer actually wants, and it is not published anywhere else. The figures below are medians over the permits where the Division was told — a mean would be carried away by a handful of industrial wells.

Medians, on the permits where the Division was told — never a mean, which a few industrial wells would carry away
MeasurementMedian90th percentileColorado median
Depth72 ft338 ft148 ft — shallower here (1,281 permits, 60 %)
Yield15 gpm500 gpm10 gpm — higher here (456 permits, 21 %)
Static water level61 ft250 ft58 ft — higher here (975 permits, 46 %)

What the permits allow

A well permit is not a general right to water: it names what the water may be used for, and the narrowest of them — household use only — means inside the house and nothing else.

Decreed usePermitsShare
Stock71133.3%
Irrigation48122.6%
Domestic42620.0%
Monitoring/sampling1798.4%
Not stated1637.6%
Commercial693.2%
Other432.0%
Municipal301.4%
Industrial211.0%
Household Use Only50.2%
Fishery20.1%
Geothermal20.1%

What happened to these permits

927 of the 2,133 permits in Cheyenne County ended with a well the Division was told about — 43.5%. And 293 expired without one: 13.7%.

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.

StatusPermitsShare
Well Constructed92743.5%
Permit Expired29313.7%
Well Abandoned2039.5%
Final Permit1647.7%
Permit Issued1014.7%
Pump Installed in Well Without a Permit944.4%
Application Denied723.4%
Permit Canceled592.8%
Pump Installed, No Construction Info Received492.3%
Application Information Requested432.0%

Which aquifers

AquiferPermitsShare
All Unnamed Aquifers1,54572.4%
Ogallala40919.2%
Not stated1416.6%
Alluvial140.7%
High Plains Aquifer90.4%
Dakota50.2%
Quaternary Alluvium40.2%
Cheyenne30.1%
Dakota Sandstone10.0%
Upper Arapahoe10.0%

When the permits were issued

Issued inPermitsShare
2020s1054.9%
2010s1567.3%
2000s24911.7%
1990s23210.9%
1980s1768.3%
1970s25011.7%
1960s633.0%
1950s512.4%

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

2,133 well permits are on the Division’s register in Cheyenne County, 293 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.

Permits on record in Cheyenne County

Well permits, Cheyenne County — 7 of the 110 shown carry the subdivision or plat name the applicant gave; a 0 means the Division was never told, not a measurement of zero
Subdivision, or the permit numberStatusDecreed useDepth (ft)Yield (gpm)Year
Trail Canyon Ranch
permit 292271-		Well ConstructedDomestic5003.82014
Caldwell Addition
permit 18233--A		Well ConstructedDomestic49152011
Bledsoe Ranch
permit 214967-		Well ConstructedDomestic28121999
Hill Crest Acres
permit 14978-FP-R		Well ConstructedMunicipal3206761988
Indian Creek
permit 66701-		Well ConstructedHousehold Use Only15001973
Jod Ranch Wild Horse
permit 232420-		Well AbandonedStock26132001
Purvis Farms (filing: 61)Application Information RequestedOther00—
342036-Well ConstructedDomestic59152026
337548-Well ConstructedStock33152025
338068-Well ConstructedDomestic291242025
338203-Well ConstructedStock18182025
339802-Well ConstructedDomestic266252025
340145-Well ConstructedStock19402025
333830-Well ConstructedDomestic6842018
333658--AWell ConstructedStock42152024
333801-Well ConstructedDomestic109152024
333802-Well ConstructedDomestic64152024
333804-Well ConstructedStock32152024
25786--AWell ConstructedDomestic74152024
334503-Well ConstructedDomestic219112024
336467-Well ConstructedDomestic35152025
336305-Well ConstructedStock226112025
336090-Well ConstructedDomestic355352024
336586-Well ConstructedDomestic29602013
20169--AWell ConstructedDomestic51152025
329676-Well ConstructedStock20702023
5247-FP-RWell ConstructedIrrigation4024182020
330460-Well ConstructedStock6832024
332145--AWell ConstructedCommercial432272024
332916-Well ConstructedCommercial322152024
325891-Well ConstructedDomestic300152022
327300-Well ConstructedStock4001971
15548-FP-RWell ConstructedIrrigation1492501971
327276-Well ConstructedStock15502016
7564--AWell ConstructedStock2692024
328485-Well ConstructedStock234152023
328542-Well ConstructedStock225202022
328544-Well ConstructedStock180202022
328545-Well ConstructedStock220202022
284732--AWell ConstructedStock10002023
328975-Well ConstructedDomestic244151994
329265-Well ConstructedStock2822023
13776-FP-RWell ConstructedIrrigation3978002021
322489-Well ConstructedDomestic291122021
322707-Well ConstructedStock217122021
16411-FP-RWell ConstructedIrrigation2022152021
323293-Well ConstructedDomestic119402021
323857-Well ConstructedStock6001971
324257-Well ConstructedStock4072021
324023-Well ConstructedCommercial16801972
317138-Well ConstructedStock5082020
317139-Well ConstructedDomestic4002020
317644-Well ConstructedHousehold Use Only10202020
317741-Well ConstructedStock6001962
317835-Well ConstructedDomestic300152020
318213-Well ConstructedStock5002021
21276--AWell ConstructedStock3852020
319220-Well ConstructedDomestic81152021
316348-Well ConstructedStock8001962
312766-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling27502018
312402-Well ConstructedStock210122019
313987-Well ConstructedDomestic4602020
42881--AWell ConstructedStock44102020
315298-Well ConstructedCommercial12032019
308314-Well ConstructedDomestic7002018
308522-Well ConstructedDomestic298282018
308369-Well ConstructedDomestic6303.52018
309544-Well ConstructedStock70152018
309734-Well ConstructedDomestic60152018
309745-Well ConstructedDomestic44142021
309966-Well ConstructedStock25142018
310084--AWell ConstructedDomestic2342019
310085-Well ConstructedStock33152018
310918-Well ConstructedStock27152018
311211-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling3802017
311212-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling3802017
311213-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling3602017
311214-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling3802017
312165-Well ConstructedStock45112019
304713-Well ConstructedDomestic24462017
305104-Well ConstructedDomestic2832017
306246-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling3602014
306247-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling3702014
306248-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling3802014
306249-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling3802014
306250-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling3802014
83528--AWell ConstructedDomestic386152017
306998-Well ConstructedStock38151996
300700-Well ConstructedStock2327.52016
303157-Well ConstructedStock4652017
56283-MHWell ConstructedMonitoring/sampling3802017
300422-Well ConstructedDomestic32122017
300351-Well ConstructedStock19602016
301009-Well ConstructedStock0102016
301148-Well ConstructedStock201132016
301187-Well ConstructedDomestic31711001973
302005-Well ConstructedDomestic210122016
302451-Well ConstructedStock40112016
303604-Well ConstructedDomestic3301950
303729-Well ConstructedDomestic15002019
78878-FWell ConstructedCommercial6001970
13777-FP-RWell ConstructedIrrigation3002002015
297226-Well ConstructedDomestic2602015
297354-Well ConstructedStock3012016
28979--AWell ConstructedDomestic65102016
297981-Well ConstructedDomestic65152015
298446-Well ConstructedStock4062016
298411-Well ConstructedDomestic8002015
298445-Well ConstructedStock7072016
298444-Well ConstructedStock55132016

Counties with a comparable register

Neighbours by the size of their register, not a ranking: the list slides with the county you are on, so each of the 63 county pages is reachable from the others. All of them.