Stock wells in Lincoln County

1,666 of the 4,107 well permits in Lincoln County — 40.6% — are decreed for stock.

How this group compares

Lincoln County holds 5.3% of Colorado’s 31,328 stock permits, while holding 0.7% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Stock means watering livestock.

What happened to these permits

1,068 of the 1,666 permits decreed for stock in Lincoln County ended with a well the Division was told about — 64.1%. And 131 expired without one: 7.9%.

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 Lincoln County, or need a well drilled?

1,666 well permits are on the Division’s register in Lincoln County, 131 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 4,107 permits in Lincoln County, and every stock permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Stock — Washington 1,958
• Irrigation — Adams 1,926
• Domestic — Delta 1,889
• Not stated — Jefferson 1,872
• Municipal — Douglas 1,698
• Domestic — Montrose 1,672
• Other — Denver 1,649
• Household Use Only — Douglas 1,632
• Other — Weld 1,623
• Household Use Only — Weld 1,617
• Stock — El Paso 1,562