Stock wells in Kit Carson County

1,441 of the 6,777 well permits in Kit Carson County — 21.3% — are decreed for stock.

How this group compares

Kit Carson County holds 4.6% of Colorado’s 31,328 stock permits, while holding 1.1% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Stock means watering livestock.

What happened to these permits

997 of the 1,441 permits decreed for stock in Kit Carson County ended with a well the Division was told about — 69.2%. And 159 expired without one: 11.0%.

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 Kit Carson County, or need a well drilled?

1,441 well permits are on the Division’s register in Kit Carson County, 159 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 6,777 permits in Kit Carson County, and every stock permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — San Miguel 1,536
• Domestic — Costilla 1,504
• Other — Jefferson 1,503
• Household Use Only — Lake 1,456
• Domestic — Clear Creek 1,443
• Household Use Only — Garfield 1,443
• Stock — Logan 1,438
• Irrigation — Prowers 1,430
• Domestic — Gilpin 1,415
• Commercial — Weld 1,414
• Household Use Only — Costilla 1,399