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Well permits in Kiowa County

1,434 well permits — 0.2% of Colorado’s register. The median well here is 64 feet deep, against 148 feet statewide.

1,434Permits
64 ftMedian depth
194Expired
0Denver Basin aquifer

How deep people drill in Kiowa 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
Depth64 ft174 ft148 ft — shallower here (832 permits, 58 %)
Yield15 gpm525 gpm10 gpm — higher here (229 permits, 16 %)
Static water level44 ft111 ft58 ft — lower here (604 permits, 42 %)

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
Stock52736.8%
Domestic36425.4%
Irrigation26118.2%
Monitoring/sampling1248.6%
Not stated704.9%
Commercial362.5%
Municipal231.6%
Other120.8%
Industrial70.5%
Household Use Only70.5%
Geothermal20.1%
Recreation10.1%

What happened to these permits

710 of the 1,434 permits in Kiowa County ended with a well the Division was told about — 49.5%. And 194 expired without one: 13.5%.

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 Constructed71049.5%
Permit Expired19413.5%
Well Abandoned1077.5%
755.2%
Permit Issued715.0%
Permit Canceled594.1%
Application Denied563.9%
Pump Installed in Well Without a Permit443.1%
Final Permit342.4%
Well Replaced - Abandonment Required292.0%

Which aquifers

AquiferPermitsShare
All Unnamed Aquifers1,22185.1%
Ogallala1037.2%
Not stated634.4%
Dakota161.1%
Alluvial141.0%
Cheyenne50.3%
Quaternary Alluvium50.3%
Dakota Sandstone30.2%
High Plains30.2%
Cheyenne Sandstone10.1%

When the permits were issued

Issued inPermitsShare
2020s704.9%
2010s926.4%
2000s1369.5%
1990s24016.7%
1980s1188.2%
1970s16311.4%
1960s735.1%
1950s231.6%

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

1,434 well permits are on the Division’s register in Kiowa County, 194 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 Kiowa County

Well permits, Kiowa 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
Towner Town of (bennets Add)
permit 342355-		Well ConstructedDomestic82152026
Towner
permit 342487-		Well ConstructedCommercial79302026
Towner
permit 342638-		Well ConstructedCommercial103482000
Chivington Town of
permit 324702-		Well ConstructedDomestic6001965
Towner
permit 305432--A		Well ConstructedDomestic84152017
State of Colorado Trustlands
permit 270364--A		Well ConstructedStock8502013
Towner
permit 283429--A		Well ConstructedDomestic85152010
Eads Town of
permit 276420-		Well ConstructedIrrigation8002008
Clarks Addition
permit 251875--A		Well ConstructedDomestic34152004
Towner Town of
permit 226615--A		Well ConstructedDomestic10302000
Towner
permit 182506-		Well ConstructedDomestic84121994
Towner Town of
permit 183393--A		Well ConstructedDomestic85151994
Chivington Town of
permit 146631-		Well ConstructedCommercial68101987
Towner, Town of (bennets Add)
permit 148432--A		Well ConstructedDomestic87151987
Eads Town of
permit 12819-R		Well ConstructedMunicipal00—
Towner
permit 283429-		Well AbandonedDomestic7002010
Eads Town of
permit 276420--A		Permit ExpiredIrrigation002008
Chivington Town of
permit 275821-		Well AbandonedDomestic4002007
Clarks Addition
permit 251875-		Well Replaced - Abandonment RequiredDomestic4502003
Towner Town of
permit 226615-		Well Replaced - Abandonment RequiredDomestic002000
Kiowa
permit 34082-MH		Permit ExpiredMonitoring/sampling001998
Towner
permit 94460-VE		Permit IssuedDomestic001994
Towner Town of
permit 183393-		Well AbandonedDomestic8001994
Towner Town of (bennets Add)
permit 148432-		Well AbandonedDomestic8001950
Slade & Torbit
permit 14096-AD		Application DeniedDomestic00—
77294--AWell ConstructedStock5202026
338915-Well ConstructedStock5602025
340163-Well ConstructedStock52152025
341075-Well ConstructedStock6602025
340920--AWell ConstructedStock90152025
335520-Well ConstructedDomestic29152024
151101--AWell ConstructedStock100102023
329921-Well ConstructedCommercial6532023
330735-Well ConstructedDomestic3902024
330743-Well ConstructedDomestic2602025
331381-Well ConstructedStock7762024
331414-Well ConstructedStock5902023
329263-Well ConstructedStock52152024
321641-Well ConstructedStock5001920
321692-Well ConstructedStock4002022
321748-Well ConstructedDomestic5002021
323047-Well ConstructedDomestic4201931
323075-Well ConstructedStock50151931
323454-Well ConstructedStock26152021
324555--AWell ConstructedStock8002021
317297-Well ConstructedDomestic4982020
318919-Well ConstructedCommercial5642020
319887-Well ConstructedDomestic71152021
316598-Well ConstructedDomestic46152020
314711-Well ConstructedDomestic16001960
314712-Well ConstructedStock16001960
312536-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling6002018
312537-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling7002018
312538-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling5002018
312539-Well ConstructedMonitoring/sampling5502018
312789-Well ConstructedDomestic120152019
197366--AWell ConstructedStock48162019
82373-FWell ConstructedCommercial30452007
312091-Well ConstructedStock80141956
310919--AWell ConstructedDomestic87102018
311680-Well ConstructedStock6002019
311500--AWell ConstructedStock4822018
81314-FWell ConstructedIrrigation5102017
81315-FWell ConstructedIrrigation5702017
304947-Well ConstructedDomestic59152017
304948-Well ConstructedDomestic57152017
307102-Well ConstructedDomestic159122017
301302-Well ConstructedStock94072016
301355--AWell ConstructedStock072016
303053-Well ConstructedStock783.52016
298447-Well ConstructedDomestic3002015
298448-Well ConstructedDomestic3102015
298914-Well ConstructedDomestic11802015
299088-Well ConstructedDomestic34152015
299589-Well ConstructedStock5302016
284444--AWell ConstructedStock4062014
293645-Well ConstructedStock320502014
293810-Well ConstructedDomestic59152014
296165-Well ConstructedStock11502014
77309-FWell ConstructedCommercial7401967
77310-FWell ConstructedCommercial7001974
77412-FWell ConstructedCommercial573001974
77413-FWell ConstructedCommercial511361974
30207--AWell ConstructedStock4742013
289998-Well ConstructedStock60112013
290029-Well ConstructedStock6032013
286556-Well ConstructedStock0112011
286545-Well ConstructedStock002011
286547-Well ConstructedStock002011
284130-Well ConstructedStock6302010
78430--AWell ConstructedStock49112010
283080-Well ConstructedDomestic9222011
36162--AWell ConstructedStock107112010
173444--AWell ConstructedDomestic319152011
282222-Well ConstructedDomestic3882010
277252-Well ConstructedStock20002008
277253-Well ConstructedStock20002008
277187-Well ConstructedDomestic32152008
277332-Well ConstructedStock6202008
278618-Well ConstructedStock2502008
278619-Well ConstructedStock3002008
278620-Well ConstructedStock3002008
278621-Well ConstructedStock3502008
279270-Well ConstructedDomestic3002008
279271-Well ConstructedDomestic3002008
279316-Well ConstructedStock3902008
279317-Well ConstructedStock4302008
279318-Well ConstructedStock4202008
279322-Well ConstructedStock2502008
279344--AWell ConstructedDomestic85302008

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.