# Well permits in Mesa County, Colorado — how deep, how much

> 6,494 well permits in Mesa County. The median well is 67 feet deep. What the permits allow, how many expired, and what the Division was told about depth and yield.

## Well permits in Mesa County

**6,494** well permits — 1.1% of Colorado’s register. The median well here is **67 feet** deep, against 148 feet statewide.

### How deep people drill in Mesa 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 | **67 ft** | 485 ft | 148 ft — shallower here (3,876 permits, 60 %) |
| Yield | **8 gpm** | 15 gpm | 10 gpm — lower here (1,103 permits, 17 %) |
| Static water level | **45 ft** | 331 ft | 58 ft — lower here (2,312 permits, 36 %) |

### 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 |
|---|---|---|
| [Monitoring/sampling](/county/mesa/monitoring-sampling.md) | 2,522 | 38.8% |
| [Domestic](/county/mesa/domestic.md) | 2,287 | 35.2% |
| [Household Use Only](/use/household-use-only.md) | 604 | 9.3% |
| [Other](/use/other.md) | 375 | 5.8% |
| [Geothermal](/use/geothermal.md) | 208 | 3.2% |
| [Not stated](/use/not-stated.md) | 145 | 2.2% |
| [Commercial](/use/commercial.md) | 101 | 1.6% |
| [Irrigation](/use/irrigation.md) | 94 | 1.4% |
| [Industrial](/use/industrial.md) | 58 | 0.9% |
| [Stock](/use/stock.md) | 51 | 0.8% |
| [Municipal](/use/municipal.md) | 33 | 0.5% |
| Dewatering | 11 | 0.2% |

### What happened to these permits

**3,076** of the 6,494 permits in Mesa County ended with a
well the Division was told about — 47.4%. And
**1,599** expired without one: 24.6%.

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](/expired.md).

| Status | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Well Constructed | 3,076 | 47.4% |
| Permit Expired | 1,599 | 24.6% |
| Well Abandoned | 817 | 12.6% |
| Permit Issued | 213 | 3.3% |
| NA | 193 | 3.0% |
| Application Information Requested | 162 | 2.5% |
| Permit Canceled | 146 | 2.2% |
| Well Replaced - Abandonment Required | 83 | 1.3% |
| Application Withdrawn | 63 | 1.0% |
| Application Denied | 50 | 0.8% |

### Which aquifers

| Aquifer | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| [All Unnamed Aquifers](/aquifer/all-unnamed-aquifers.md) | 6,053 | 93.2% |
| [Not stated](/aquifer/not-stated.md) | 236 | 3.6% |
| [Alluvial](/aquifer/alluvial.md) | 138 | 2.1% |
| Entrada | 16 | 0.2% |
| [Dakota](/aquifer/dakota.md) | 11 | 0.2% |
| Mesa Verde Group | 8 | 0.1% |
| Mancos | 6 | 0.1% |
| Wasatch-fort Union | 5 | 0.1% |
| Wasatch | 3 | 0.0% |
| [Quaternary Alluvium](/aquifer/quaternary-alluvium.md) | 3 | 0.0% |

### When the permits were issued

| Issued in | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2020s | 858 | 13.2% |
| 2010s | 1,134 | 17.5% |
| 2000s | 1,530 | 23.6% |
| 1990s | 1,295 | 19.9% |
| 1980s | 501 | 7.7% |
| 1970s | 264 | 4.1% |
| 1960s | 72 | 1.1% |
| 1950s | 54 | 0.8% |

### Buying land in Mesa County, or need a well drilled?

6,494 well permits are on the Division’s register in Mesa County, 1,599 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](/privacy.md).

### Permits on record in Mesa County

*Well permits, Mesa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Little Park Ranches (filing: 3)](/search.md) permit 343193- | Well Constructed | Commercial | 395 | 2 | 2004 |
| [Vega Vista](/search.md) permit 338702- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 435 | 0 | 2025 |
| [King View Estates](/search.md) permit 88821-F | Well Constructed | Domestic | 540 | 3 | 2024 |
| [Hoefner Exemption](/search.md) permit 335155- | Well Constructed | Commercial | 370 | 4 | 2005 |
| [Red Creek Ranch](/search.md) permit 326402--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 792 | 3 | 2024 |
| [Vega Vista](/search.md) permit 334849- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 325 | 0 | 2024 |
| [Red Creek Ranch](/search.md) permit 334451- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 760 | 3 | 2024 |
| [A Survey Sections 8, 16 & 17, Twp 11s Rng 96w 6th](/search.md) permit 170966--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 150 | 15 | 2025 |
| [Double Tree Ranch](/search.md) permit 89630-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 280 | 7 | 2010 |
| [Little Park Ranch](/search.md) permit 329591- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 410 | 0 | 2023 |
| [Miller Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 330467- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 670 | 0 | 2024 |
| [Horizon Estates (filing: 2)](/search.md) permit 329786- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 198 | 5 | 2024 |
| [Vega Vista](/search.md) permit 330759- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 320 | 0 | 2023 |
| [Bull Basin](/search.md) permit 331346- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 330 | 0 | 2024 |
| [Vega Vista](/search.md) permit 330915- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 320 | 5 | 2023 |
| [Tiara Rado](/search.md) permit 332294- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 290 | 0 | 2023 |
| [Vega Vista](/search.md) permit 325161- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 320 | 6 | 2023 |
| [Tranquility Ranches](/search.md) permit 326336- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 140 | 13 | 2022 |
| [Red Creek Ranch](/search.md) permit 325726- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 880 | 5 | 2022 |
| [Smallwood Parcels](/search.md) permit 326238- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 80 | 0 | 2022 |
| [Adjustment of Peterson Parcel of Unaweep Canyon](/search.md) permit 326998- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 110 | 12 | 2022 |
| [Hawkins Simple Land Division](/search.md) permit 326849- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 123 | 13 | 2022 |
| [Horizon Estates (filing: 1)](/search.md) permit 327504- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 368 | 4 | 2024 |
| [Ladder Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 327273- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 540 | 0 | 2022 |
| [Vega Vista](/search.md) permit 328240- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 250 | 10 | 2023 |
| [Tranquility Ranches](/search.md) permit 328218- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 130 | 0 | 2022 |
| [Little Park Ranch](/search.md) permit 328217- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 410 | 0 | 2022 |
| [Ben E Nichols Family Trust Division of Land](/search.md) permit 328567- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 118 | 12 | 2022 |
| [New Rosevale](/search.md) permit 328424- | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 29 | 0 | 2024 |
| [Bull Basin Ranches](/search.md) permit 239402--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 419 | 11 | 2022 |
| [Vega Vista](/search.md) permit 328464- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 326 | 8 | 2023 |
| [Red Creek Ranch](/search.md) permit 329312- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 450 | 8 | 2023 |
| [A Survey Sections 8, 16 & 17, Twp 11s Rng 96w 6th](/search.md) permit 320222- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 150 | 0 | 2022 |
| [Preserve (filing: 2)](/search.md) permit 85114-F | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 500 | 12 | 2021 |
| [Kim Physical and Legal Separation Exemption Plat](/search.md) permit 320358- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 276 | 3 | 2022 |
| [Red Creek Ranch](/search.md) permit 320753- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 450 | 6 | 2021 |
| [Arnold Physical & Legal Seperation (no. 5148-15)](/search.md) permit 85713-F | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 510 | 15 | 2021 |
| [Plateau City](/search.md) permit 541-RN-R | Well Constructed | Domestic | 82 | 15 | 2021 |
| [Bull Basin](/search.md) permit 321682- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 110 | 0 | 2023 |
| [Little Park Ranches (filing: 1)](/search.md) permit 321457- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 470 | 1 | 2021 |
| [Ladder Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 322095- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 580 | 3 | 2021 |
| [Trail Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 322096- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 490 | 12 | 2021 |
| [Ranches At Elk Reserve](/search.md) permit 322806- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 353 | 2 | 2021 |
| [Trail Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 322252- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 490 | 12 | 2021 |
| [Worthington Simple Land Division](/search.md) permit 23942--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 400 | 13 | 2022 |
| [Horizon Estates (filing: 1)](/search.md) permit 322288- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 200 | 0 | 2022 |
| [Horizon Estates (filing: 1)](/search.md) permit 322289- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 210 | 0 | 2022 |
| [Red Creek Ranch](/search.md) permit 322605- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 737 | 4 | 2022 |
| [Ladder Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 324137- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 430 | 3 | 2021 |
| [Laudadio Simple Land Division](/search.md) permit 324012- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 200 | 0 | 2023 |
| [Sullivant Simple Land Division](/search.md) permit 324391- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 50 | 15 | 2004 |
| [Sullivant Simple Land Division](/search.md) permit 324392- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 90 | 0 | 2022 |
| [Mirador Estates](/search.md) permit 324385- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 310 | 12 | 2022 |
| [Little Park Ranch](/search.md) permit 324513- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 430 | 2 | 2021 |
| [Monument Valley (filing: 1, 2)](/search.md) permit 324554- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 292 | 15 | 2022 |
| [Bull Basin Ranches](/search.md) permit 259416--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 412 | 0 | 2023 |
| [Little Park Rnach (filing: 3)](/search.md) permit 316861- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 398 | 2 | 2020 |
| [Miller Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 317823- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 559 | 3 | 2020 |
| [B.v.c. Estates](/search.md) permit 317267- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 718 | 1 | 2020 |
| [Kendrick](/search.md) permit 128191--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 153 | 0 | 2020 |
| [Foraker Property Line Adjustment](/search.md) permit 318014- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 260 | 15 | 1998 |
| [Mesa Creek Ranch](/search.md) permit 318283- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 157 | 15 | 2021 |
| [Miller Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 318024- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 650 | 2 | 2020 |
| [Bull Basin Ranches](/search.md) permit 318433- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 90 | 15 | 2020 |
| [Little Park Ranch](/search.md) permit 318465- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 510 | 5 | 2020 |
| [Little Park Ranches (filing: 1)](/search.md) permit 318483- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 495 | 1 | 2020 |
| [Plateau City](/search.md) permit 318955- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 100 | 0 | 1940 |
| [Monument Valley (filing: 1, 2)](/search.md) permit 319099- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 300 | 12 | 2021 |
| [Ranches At Elk Reserve](/search.md) permit 318871- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 938 | 0 | 2020 |
| [Coon Creek Tracts](/search.md) permit 227116--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 96 | 12 | 2020 |
| [Tranquility Ranches](/search.md) permit 319089- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 520 | 0 | 2021 |
| [West Creek Canyon Estates](/search.md) permit 317558- | Well Constructed | Commercial | 50 | 0 | 1956 |
| [Foraker Property Line Adjustment](/search.md) permit 318681- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 150 | 10 | 2021 |
| [Ladder Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 316689- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 390 | 3.75 | 2020 |
| [Mirador Estates](/search.md) permit 316586- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 325 | 12 | 2020 |
| [B.v.c. Estates](/search.md) permit 312465- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 500 | 4.9 | 2020 |
| [Miller Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 315115- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 685 | 4.5 | 2019 |
| [Springer Exemption](/search.md) permit 314010- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 65 | 15 | 1988 |
| [Springer Exemption](/search.md) permit 314009- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 4 | 0 | 2003 |
| [Tranquility Ranches](/search.md) permit 312958- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 400 | 0 | 2019 |
| [Little Park Ranch](/search.md) permit 313579- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 395 | 1700 | 2019 |
| [Horizon Estates (filing: 1)](/search.md) permit 308800- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 310 | 0 | 2019 |
| [Coon Creek Estates](/search.md) permit 309463- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 330 | 6 | 2018 |
| [Government](/search.md) permit 310838- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 520 | 5 | 2018 |
| [Ladder Creek Ranches](/search.md) permit 311571- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 480 | 1 | 2019 |
| [Dunn Estates](/search.md) permit 312017- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 432 | 0 | 1996 |
| [Ladder Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 308164- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 500 | 1 | 2018 |
| [Little Park Ranch](/search.md) permit 309432- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 400 | 7 | 2018 |
| [Little Park Ranch](/search.md) permit 309507- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 480 | 0 | 2018 |
| [Trail Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 311797- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 480 | 0 | 2020 |
| [Aspen Park](/search.md) permit 305166- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 110 | 20 | 2017 |
| [Mother's Buttress of Unaweep Canyon](/search.md) permit 305357- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 104 | 0 | 2018 |
| [Application Parcel Name Missing](/search.md) permit 305721- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 170 | 9 | 2017 |
| [Red Creek Ranch](/search.md) permit 306345- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 440 | 8 | 2017 |
| [Trail Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 306344- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 510 | 7 | 2017 |
| [Turnage Physical & Legal Separation](/search.md) permit 81052-F | Well Constructed | Domestic | 638 | 20 | 2017 |
| [Adams Simple Land Division](/search.md) permit 305923- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 540 | 7 | 2017 |
| [Coon Creek Estates](/search.md) permit 307379- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 240 | 15 | 2018 |
| [Little Muddy Acres](/search.md) permit 301833- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 103 | 0 | 2016 |
| [Trail Canyon Ranch](/search.md) permit 302010- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 440 | 7 | 2016 |
| [Ladder Canyon Ranches](/search.md) permit 301986- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 545 | 3 | 2016 |
| [Red Creek Ranch](/search.md) permit 302243- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 840 | 0 | 2016 |
| [Harris Simple Land Division (exemption)](/search.md) permit 300734- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 220 | 8 | 2016 |
| [Harris Simple Land Division (exemption)](/search.md) permit 300735- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 194 | 0 | 2019 |
| [Branson Boundary Line Adjustment](/search.md) permit 301789- | Well Constructed | Commercial | 70 | 0 | 2018 |
| [Vega Park](/search.md) permit 301084- | Well Constructed | Household Use Only | 487 | 5 | 2016 |
| [Grand Junction City of](/search.md) permit 78890-F | Well Constructed | Other | 50 | 5 | 2004 |
| [Grand Junction City of](/search.md) permit 78893-F | Well Constructed | Other | 50 | 5 | 2004 |
| [Grand Junction City of](/search.md) permit 78894-F | Well Constructed | Other | 50 | 5 | 2004 |
| [Grand Junction City of](/search.md) permit 78895-F | Well Constructed | Other | 50 | 5 | 2004 |

### By decreed use in Mesa County

- [Domestic in Mesa County](/county/mesa/domestic.md) — 2,287
- [Monitoring/sampling in Mesa County](/county/mesa/monitoring-sampling.md) — 2,522

### Counties with a comparable register

- [Gunnison](/county/gunnison.md) 8,894
- [Saguache](/county/saguache.md) 8,803
- [Summit](/county/summit.md) 8,609
- [Las Animas](/county/las-animas.md) 8,050
- [Routt](/county/routt.md) 7,264
- [Custer](/county/custer.md) 6,916
- [Kit Carson](/county/kit-carson.md) 6,777
- [Conejos](/county/conejos.md) 5,774
- [Washington](/county/washington.md) 5,722
- [Clear Creek](/county/clear-creek.md) 5,556
- [Baca](/county/baca.md) 5,424
- [Pitkin](/county/pitkin.md) 4,805
- [Eagle](/county/eagle.md) 4,742

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](/county.md).

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