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Well permits in Crowley County

1,099 well permits — 0.2% of Colorado’s register. The median well here is 40 feet deep, against 148 feet statewide.

1,099Permits
40 ftMedian depth
136Expired
0Denver Basin aquifer

How deep people drill in Crowley 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
Depth40 ft104 ft148 ft — shallower here (782 permits, 71 %)
Yield45 gpm745 gpm10 gpm — higher here (77 permits, 7 %)
Static water level19 ft80 ft58 ft — lower here (469 permits, 43 %)

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
Domestic37333.9%
Stock29727.0%
Irrigation25723.4%
Monitoring/sampling1029.3%
Municipal333.0%
Household Use Only90.8%
Not stated90.8%
Other80.7%
Commercial70.6%
Industrial40.4%

What happened to these permits

716 of the 1,099 permits in Crowley County ended with a well the Division was told about — 65.2%. And 136 expired without one: 12.4%.

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 Constructed71665.2%
Permit Expired13612.4%
Well Abandoned645.8%
Permit Canceled454.1%
Well Replaced - Abandonment Required444.0%
Permit Issued383.5%
232.1%
Application Information Requested100.9%
Application Denied80.7%
Application Received70.6%

Which aquifers

AquiferPermitsShare
All Unnamed Aquifers1,07397.6%
Not stated111.0%
Alluvial80.7%
Dakota30.3%
Quaternary Alluvium20.2%
Denver10.1%
Pierre Shale10.1%

When the permits were issued

Issued inPermitsShare
2020s363.3%
2010s1069.6%
2000s18216.6%
1990s978.8%
1980s676.1%
1970s918.3%
1960s504.5%
1950s898.1%

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

1,099 well permits are on the Division’s register in Crowley County, 136 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 Crowley County

Well permits, Crowley County — 25 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
Brookside
permit 300298--A		Well ConstructedDomestic18082016
Land Survey Plat
permit 283798--A		Well ConstructedDomestic11502012
Olney Springs
permit 267227-		Well ConstructedDomestic3002006
Olney Springs
permit 263216--A		Well ConstructedDomestic45132005
Olney Springs
permit 256519--A		Well ConstructedDomestic92102004
Olney Springs
permit 252366--A		Well ConstructedDomestic65102004
Olney Springs
permit 156060--A		Well ConstructedDomestic4501990
Bowmann
permit 138217--A		Well ConstructedDomestic4501985
Youngs Addition
permit 105464--A		Well ConstructedDomestic6501979
Crowley
permit 39-WCB		Well ConstructedIrrigation2601955
Olney SpringsWell ConstructedDomestic800—
Crowley
permit 14489-R		Well ConstructedIndustrial3201942
Olney Springs
permit 33927-		Well ConstructedDomestic3001964
Indian Grant
permit 94-WCB		Well ConstructedStock3401956
Olney Springs
permit 267227--A		Permit ExpiredDomestic002006
Olney Springs
permit 263216-		Well Replaced - Abandonment RequiredDomestic4002005
Olney Springs
permit 256519-		Well Replaced - Abandonment RequiredDomestic8002004
Olney Springs
permit 252366-		Well Replaced - Abandonment RequiredDomestic5002003
Ordway
permit 244351--A		Permit ExpiredDomestic002002
(exemption)
permit 159426-		Permit IssuedHousehold Use Only001991
Olney Springs
permit 89584-VE		Permit IssuedDomestic001989
Crowley
permit 139716--A		Permit IssuedDomestic001985
Bowmann
permit 138217-		Well Replaced - Abandonment RequiredDomestic001984
Crowley
permit 139716-		Well Constructed - Replacement Permit IssuedDomestic00—
West NumaApplication Information RequestedHousehold Use Only00—
339230-Well ConstructedStock12002025
339339-Well ConstructedStock8502025
87810-FWell ConstructedCommercial233501965
93339--AWell ConstructedStock9502023
330855-Well ConstructedStock8502025
327764-Well ConstructedDomestic2702024
327952-Well ConstructedDomestic2001954
327808-Well ConstructedStock3902024
1399-R-RWell ConstructedCommercial4302023
324443-Well ConstructedDomestic3502023
262870--AWell ConstructedDomestic3002023
6780-F-RWell ConstructedIrrigation387002020
84806-FWell ConstructedCommercial002020
316477-Well ConstructedDomestic5102020
60321-MHWell ConstructedMonitoring/sampling2002020
15964-R-RWell ConstructedMunicipal29102019
82420-FWell ConstructedIndustrial397451953
310476-Well ConstructedStock3001951
309953-Well ConstructedDomestic4701925
310016-Well ConstructedDomestic3002020
310017-Well ConstructedDomestic3002020
311678-Well ConstructedStock6002019
304081-Well ConstructedDomestic3401965
16195-R-RWell ConstructedIrrigation284002018
305639-Well ConstructedStock3202019
305156-Well ConstructedStock7002017
5534-F-RWell ConstructedIrrigation505602018
306755-Well ConstructedStock001971
307748-Well ConstructedStock4402018
302294-Well ConstructedDomestic11502016
239760--AWell ConstructedDomestic12002016
302746--AWell ConstructedStock12002016
10091-R-RWell ConstructedIrrigation282002016
10092-R-RWell ConstructedIrrigation282002016
10093-R-RWell ConstructedIrrigation2852002016
10094-R-RWell ConstructedIrrigation2852002016
10095-R-RWell ConstructedIrrigation2852002016
12135-R-RWell ConstructedIrrigation293102016
12136-R-RWell ConstructedIrrigation293102016
12137-R-RWell ConstructedIrrigation293102016
21055-F-RWell ConstructedIrrigation292952016
21056-F-RWell ConstructedIrrigation292952016
21057-F-RWell ConstructedIrrigation292952016
21058-F-RWell ConstructedIrrigation292952016
21059-F-RWell ConstructedIrrigation292952016
21060-F-RWell ConstructedIrrigation292952016
298919-Well ConstructedDomestic40102015
294622-Well ConstructedDomestic45122014
290467-Well ConstructedDomestic5002013
291824-Well ConstructedDomestic11302013
291825-Well ConstructedDomestic9402013
292344--AWell ConstructedDomestic9402013
287543-Well ConstructedStock12002012
287402-Well ConstructedDomestic3462012
287552-Well ConstructedDomestic16002012
287720-Well ConstructedDomestic10505.52014
287933--AWell ConstructedDomestic5102014
205617--AWell ConstructedDomestic2402012
285447-Well ConstructedStock20001939
285050-Well ConstructedDomestic3602011
285391--AWell ConstructedStock3502011
285559-Well ConstructedDomestic7502011
286311-Well ConstructedDomestic7502011
286709--AWell ConstructedDomestic11502011
172281--AWell ConstructedStock13502012
283465-Well ConstructedStock20002010
283379-Well ConstructedDomestic3402010
283493-Well ConstructedDomestic4502010
283827-Well ConstructedStock3302010
283800-Well ConstructedDomestic11002010
284310-Well ConstructedDomestic8902010
283822--AWell ConstructedDomestic8002012
284344-Well ConstructedDomestic5002010
43829--AWell ConstructedStock3422011
280849-Well ConstructedDomestic14002009
280794-Well ConstructedDomestic8302009
281502-Well ConstructedDomestic4202009
281400-Well ConstructedDomestic8802009
281402-Well ConstructedDomestic8502009
281370-Well ConstructedDomestic14502009
281948-Well ConstructedDomestic4302009
282209-Well ConstructedDomestic4002009
279518--AWell ConstructedStock5202009
272649-Well ConstructedDomestic10002007
272801-Well ConstructedDomestic4401964

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.