Well permits in Jackson County

1,625 well permits — 0.3% of Colorado’s register. The median well here is 100 feet deep, against 148 feet statewide.

1,625Permits

100 ftMedian depth

207Expired

0Denver Basin aquifer

How deep people drill in Jackson 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
Measurement	Median	90th percentile	Colorado median
Depth	100 ft	255 ft	148 ft — shallower here (1,206 permits, 74 %)
Yield	10 gpm	15 gpm	10 gpm — the same here (260 permits, 16 %)
Static water level	28 ft	87 ft	58 ft — lower here (857 permits, 53 %)

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 use	Permits	Share
Domestic	833	51.3%
Household Use Only	262	16.1%
Stock	210	12.9%
Monitoring/sampling	145	8.9%
Commercial	59	3.6%
Not stated	39	2.4%
Other	31	1.9%
Irrigation	19	1.2%
Municipal	18	1.1%
Industrial	8	0.5%
Fire	1	0.1%

What happened to these permits

1,059 of the 1,625 permits in Jackson County ended with a well the Division was told about — 65.2%. And 207 expired without one: 12.7%.

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.

Status	Permits	Share
Well Constructed	1,059	65.2%
Permit Expired	207	12.7%
Well Replaced - Abandonment Required	89	5.5%
Well Abandoned	78	4.8%
Permit Issued	60	3.7%
Application Denied	37	2.3%
Permit Canceled	33	2.0%
Application Information Requested	24	1.5%
Application Received	13	0.8%
Permit Expired (Pump Installed)	7	0.4%

Which aquifers

Aquifer	Permits	Share
All Unnamed Aquifers	1,589	97.8%
Alluvial	15	0.9%
Not stated	11	0.7%
Coalmont	7	0.4%
Pierre Shale	2	0.1%
Dakota	1	0.1%

When the permits were issued

Issued in	Permits	Share
2020s	109	6.7%
2010s	142	8.7%
2000s	272	16.7%
1990s	374	23.0%
1980s	194	11.9%
1970s	169	10.4%
1960s	10	0.6%
1950s	34	2.1%

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

1,625 well permits are on the Division’s register in Jackson County, 207 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 Jackson County

Well permits, Jackson County — 110 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 number	Status	Decreed use	Depth (ft)	Yield (gpm)	Year
Cowdrey permit 337015-	Well Constructed	Commercial	100	0	1927
Grizzly Creek permit 226318--A	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	305	0	2025
Lightning Ridge permit 90078-F	Well Constructed	Domestic	305	0	2025
Whispering Pines permit 331033-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	160	0	2025
Connor Creek Ranch permit 331323-	Well Constructed	Domestic	251	0	2023
Whispering Pines permit 326610-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	175	0	2023
Mountain Vista Ranch permit 327330-	Well Constructed	Domestic	240	0	2023
Whispering Pines permit 115698--A	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	115	0	2021
Old Homestead Tract permit 315769-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	201	0	2020
Jack Creek Ranch permit 309963-	Well Constructed	Domestic	202	0	2018
Whispering Pines permit 300825-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	180	10	2018
Grizzly Creek Camp permit 302148-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	301	0	2016
Ginger Quill Ranch permit 300889-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	0	2016
Tract 1 permit 303529-	Well Constructed	Domestic	152	0	2016
Cowdrey Town of permit 245302--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	125	0	2016
Mountain Vista Ranch permit 297545-	Well Constructed	Domestic	400	0	2015
Meadow Creek Ranch permit 298807-	Well Constructed	Domestic	125	15	2016
Mountain Vista Ranch permit 294282-	Well Constructed	Domestic	420	25	2015
Lightning Ridge permit 93317--A	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	251	0	2012
Grizzly Creek permit 286344-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	175	12	2012
Ginger Quill Ranch permit 281654-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	376	0	2009
Ginger Quill Ranch permit 281875-	Well Constructed	Domestic	255	0	2009
Whispering Pines permit 115291--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	150	10	2008
Whispering Pines permit 278430-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	160	10	2008
Whispering Pines 2nd Addition permit 277450-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	140	0	2008
Ginger Quill Ranch permit 278386-	Well Constructed	Domestic	301	0	2009
Ginger Quill Ranch permit 278391-	Well Constructed	Domestic	251	10	2009
Mountain Visa Ranch permit 273431-	Well Constructed	Domestic	350	0	2007
Trophy Mountain Community permit 274612-	Well Constructed	Domestic	160	9	2008
Grizzly Creek Camp permit 215793--A	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	300	0	2006
Old Homestead Tract permit 270051-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	140	14	2009
Burke Exemption permit 264214-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	32	0	2006
Jack Creek Ranch permit 156264--A	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	38	0	2006
Mountain Vista Ranch permit 264681-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2006
Trophy Mountain Community Cluster permit 265114-	Well Constructed	Domestic	450	0	2005
Trophy Mountain Community permit 265108-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	10	2005
Town of Pearl permit 265164-	Well Constructed	Domestic	126	0	2006
Kay Blanton-huffman Exemption permit 258544-	Well Constructed	Commercial	70	0	2004
Tierney permit 257787-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	101	14.5	2004
Lightning Ridge (filing: 2) permit 61193-F	Well Constructed	Domestic	175	14	2004
Meadow Creek Ranch permit 258495-	Well Constructed	Domestic	250	0	2005
Ginger Quill Ranch Corp permit 259243-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	300	12	2005
Meadow Creek Villas permit 260676-	Well Constructed	Monitoring/sampling	14	0	2004
Erker Exemption permit 254583-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	185	12.5	2004
Tierney permit 258299-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	740	0	2004
Whispering Pines permit 254257-	Well Constructed	Domestic	104	0	2003
Mountain Vista Ranch permit 251667-	Well Constructed	Domestic	310	6.7	2004
Grizzly Creek permit 242200-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	275	0	2002
Rand Townsite permit 238075-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	147	0	2002
Tierney permit 230233-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	197	10	2001
Whispering Pines permit 226623-	Well Constructed	Domestic	174	0	2000
Whispering Pines permit 224647-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	162	0	2000
Whispering Pines permit 228014--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	140	9	2000
Grissly Creek permit 217493-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	143	0	1999
Grizzly Creek Camp permit 216749-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	180	0	1999
Whispering Pines permit 216248-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	136	0	2000
Grizzly Creek permit 217492-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	143	0	1999
Wade-tamlin permit 219170-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	245	0	2000
Meadow Creek Ranch permit 219177-	Well Constructed	Domestic	100	0	1999
Wade Tamlin (filing: 2) permit 220720-	Well Constructed	Domestic	100	0	1999
Connor Creek Ranch permit 209236-	Well Constructed	Domestic	298	12	2000
Connor Creek Ranch permit 209239-	Well Constructed	Domestic	280	0	1998
Connor Creek Ranch permit 209231-	Well Constructed	Domestic	190	0	1998
Connor Creek Ranch permit 209233-	Well Constructed	Domestic	198	0	2000
Connor Creek Ranch permit 209238-	Well Constructed	Domestic	103	0	1990
Ginger Quill Ranch permit 212572-	Well Constructed	Domestic	360	10	1999
Grizzly Creek permit 211391-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	175	0	1999
Meadow Creek Ranch permit 213532-	Well Constructed	Domestic	100	0	1999
Ginger Quill Ranch permit 214235-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	0	2001
Meadow Creek Ranch permit 213531-	Well Constructed	Domestic	100	5	1999
Whispering Pines permit 203371-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	163	10	1997
Red Hill #16334 permit 203381-	Well Constructed	Domestic	705	0	1999
Ginger Quill Ranch Corp permit 205267-	Well Constructed	Domestic	150	0	1998
Meadow Creek Ranch permit 205790-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	0	1998
Willow Creek Ranch permit 203396-	Well Constructed	Domestic	100	0	1997
Ginger Quill Ranch Corp permit 204339-	Well Constructed	Domestic	130	15	1998
Rosebud Township permit 131372-	Well Constructed	Commercial	100	0	1988
Ginger Quill Ranch permit 198687-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	0	1999
Whispering Pines permit 198787-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	200	5	1997
Meadow Creek Ranch permit 186816-	Well Constructed	Domestic	120	0	1995
Ginger Quill Ranch Corp permit 187729-	Well Constructed	Domestic	142	0	1996
Tierney permit 190166-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	85	0	1996
Meadow Creek permit 190956-	Well Constructed	Domestic	125	0	1996
Grizzly Creek permit 190172-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	130	0	1995
Meadow Creek Ranch permit 191877-	Well Constructed	Domestic	175	0	1996
Ginger Quill Ranch Corp permit 181960-	Well Constructed	Domestic	131	0	1995
Ginger Quill Ranch Corp permit 181959-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	120	10	1994
Tierney permit 182403-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	120	0	1994
Meadow Creek Ranch permit 183907-	Well Constructed	Domestic	100	0	1995
Whispering Pines permit 168306-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	137	0	1993
Whispering Pines permit 170754-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	105	0	1993
Tamlin permit 174080-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	55	0	1994
Whispering Pines permit 48509--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	100	0	1997
Cowdrey Townsite permit 173321-	Well Constructed	Domestic	40	0	1993
Cowdrey Townsite permit 173322-	Well Constructed	Domestic	40	0	1993
Cowdrey Town of permit 164238--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	80	0	1994
Lightning Ridge permit 91290-VE	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	240	0	1991
Tamlin permit 160349-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	60	10	1991
Lightning Ridge permit 99370--A	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	240	4	1991
Lightning Ridge permit 93314--A	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	160	5	1991
Big Creek Summer Home Group permit 155124-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	85	0	1989
Pd4082bb80112 permit 150657-	Well Constructed	Other	105	3.8	1988
Pearl permit 153199-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	40	66	1989
Medicine Meadows permit 145192-	Well Constructed	Domestic	160	3	1988
Tierney permit 145180-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	118	15	1986
Ginger Quill Ranch permit 140208-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	130	0	1985
Grizzly Creek Camp permit 135103-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	100	0	1984
Grizzly Creek Camp permit 126402-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	175	0	1984
Rathburn & Moore permit 128914-	Well Constructed	Domestic	15	0	1918
Grizzly Creek Camp permit 125929-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	120	5	1982

Counties with a comparable register

Otero 3,393
Phillips 2,865
Lake 2,756
Bent 2,362
Sedgwick 2,293
Cheyenne 2,133
Montezuma 2,111
Mineral 1,539
Kiowa 1,434
Hinsdale 1,273
Ouray 1,242
Broomfield 1,127
Crowley 1,099

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.