Well permits in Moffat County

4,379 well permits — 0.7% of Colorado’s register. The median well here is 210 feet deep, against 148 feet statewide.

4,379Permits

210 ftMedian depth

990Expired

0Denver Basin aquifer

How deep people drill in Moffat 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	210 ft	500 ft	148 ft — deeper here (2,687 permits, 61 %)
Yield	8 gpm	15 gpm	10 gpm — lower here (521 permits, 12 %)
Static water level	60 ft	220 ft	58 ft — higher here (1,828 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 use	Permits	Share
Domestic	2,208	50.4%
Monitoring/sampling	699	16.0%
Stock	685	15.6%
Other	175	4.0%
Household Use Only	173	4.0%
Industrial	170	3.9%
Irrigation	102	2.3%
Commercial	80	1.8%
Municipal	40	0.9%
Not stated	27	0.6%
Geothermal	7	0.2%
Fire	7	0.2%

What happened to these permits

2,461 of the 4,379 permits in Moffat County ended with a well the Division was told about — 56.2%. And 990 expired without one: 22.6%.

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.

Status	Permits	Share
Well Constructed	2,461	56.2%
Permit Expired	990	22.6%
Permit Issued	238	5.4%
Well Abandoned	178	4.1%
Permit Canceled	141	3.2%
Application Information Requested	97	2.2%
Well Replaced - Abandonment Required	68	1.6%
Application Received	46	1.1%
Permit Expired (Pump Installed)	42	1.0%
Permit Extended	39	0.9%

Which aquifers

Aquifer	Permits	Share
All Unnamed Aquifers	4,170	95.2%
Alluvial	63	1.4%
Not stated	40	0.9%
Wasatch-fort Union	32	0.7%
Wasatch	27	0.6%
Williams Fork	16	0.4%
Mesa Verde	14	0.3%
Laramie Fox Hills	7	0.2%
Mesa Verde Group	3	0.1%
Entrada	2	0.0%

When the permits were issued

Issued in	Permits	Share
2020s	520	11.9%
2010s	491	11.2%
2000s	659	15.0%
1990s	820	18.7%
1980s	590	13.5%
1970s	382	8.7%
1960s	24	0.5%
1950s	6	0.1%

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

4,379 well permits are on the Division’s register in Moffat County, 990 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 Moffat County

Well permits, Moffat 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
Sherman permit 337625-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	160	0	2025
Lay Creek Estates permit 338162-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	55	0	2025
Skull Creek permit 338881-	Well Constructed	Domestic	360	0	1982
Estey Ranch permit 157365--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	280	8	2024
Gibson permit 329740-	Well Constructed	Domestic	180	0	2025
Gustin Minor permit 329537-	Well Constructed	Domestic	275	10	1950
Gustin Minor permit 329538-	Well Constructed	Domestic	18	0	1935
Lay Creek Estates permit 328477-	Well Constructed	Domestic	45	0	2025
Maybell Townsite permit 86782-F	Well Constructed	Commercial	25	54	1949
North Rancho Estate permit 325111-	Well Constructed	Domestic	180	0	2025
North Rancho Estate permit 325110-	Well Constructed	Domestic	180	0	2025
Heartland Valley Minor permit 325480-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	175	15	2022
Heartland Valley Minor permit 325588-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	200	0	2023
Western Knolls permit 325673-	Well Constructed	Domestic	315	0	2001
Western Knolls permit 325674-	Well Constructed	Domestic	480	0	2003
Westview 2nd Addition permit 325679-	Well Constructed	Domestic	192	10	1996
Western Knolls permit 325681-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2026
Migration Acres Iv permit 325867-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	10	2004
Breeze Highlands permit 326015-	Well Constructed	Domestic	320	0	2022
Craig So Highlands permit 326024-	Well Constructed	Domestic	420	0	2022
Theaman Minor permit 326092-	Well Constructed	Domestic	13	0	1890
Theaman Minor permit 326091-	Well Constructed	Domestic	20	0	1879
Theaman Minor permit 326096-	Well Constructed	Domestic	20	0	1879
Rew Exemption permit 326236-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	5	2000
Wilderness Ranches permit 326333-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	120	0	2022
Wilderness Ranches permit 326912-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2022
Skull Creek permit 323612--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	560	3	2022
Walker Exemption permit 327656-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	460	0	2022
Gibson permit 328507-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	500	0	2023
Sand Springs permit 328387-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	140	10	2022
Wilderness Ranches permit 328824-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	400	0	2023
Clayton Minor Subdivision permit 188073--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2023
West Ridge Estates permit 87740-F	Well Constructed	Other	20	0	2021
Walker Property Plat permit 329397-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	15	2007
Maybell Townsite permit 321137-	Well Constructed	Commercial	58	17	2021
Lay Creek Estates permit 322067-	Well Constructed	Domestic	38	10	2021
Wildlife Estates permit 322151-	Well Constructed	Domestic	550	0	2024
Sand Springs #3 permit 322247-	Well Constructed	Domestic	215	0	1997
Sand Springs 6 permit 322283-	Well Constructed	Domestic	340	0	2021
Maybell Town of permit 322220-	Well Constructed	Domestic	80	0	1963
Wildlife Estates permit 322210-	Well Constructed	Domestic	400	0	2024
Maybell permit 322261-	Well Constructed	Domestic	90	0	1949
Wyman Elk Ranch Exemption permit 322332-	Well Constructed	Domestic	375	0	2022
Brett permit 322850-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	260	0	2022
North Rancho Estates permit 324290-	Well Constructed	Domestic	160	0	2023
Houseman Exemption permit 317833-	Well Constructed	Domestic	100	0	1979
West Ridge Estates permit 318378-	Well Constructed	Domestic	20	12	2022
Sand Springs permit 220744--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	7	2020
Skull Creek Estates permit 83819-F	Well Constructed	Industrial	240	0	1982
Hunt Minor permit 314444-	Well Constructed	Domestic	180	0	2019
Co Res 0-10 Acres permit 311696-	Well Constructed	Domestic	210	0	1975
Wilderness Ranch permit 311282-	Well Constructed	Domestic	100	0	2025
Wisdom Exemption #2 permit 305197-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	180	0	2017
Pankey Minor permit 305381-	Well Constructed	Domestic	360	0	2017
Estey Ranch permit 305869-	Well Constructed	Domestic	240	0	2017
Harvey Minor permit 306074-	Well Constructed	Domestic	100	0	2017
Wilderness Ranch #10 permit 306357-	Well Constructed	Domestic	405	0	2021
Thompson Hill permit 32443--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	315	13	2016
Tall T Ranch #1 permit 300894-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	0	2016
Lay Townsites permit 303468-	Well Constructed	Domestic	160	0	2017
Skull Creek Estates permit 297760-	Well Constructed	Domestic	900	0	2015
Wildlife Estates permit 297544-	Well Constructed	Domestic	520	12	2015
Wilderness Ranch permit 297727-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	60	0	2015
Application Parcel Name Missing permit 297933-	Well Constructed	Stock	172	0	2015
Wilderness Ranch permit 298217-	Well Constructed	Domestic	180	0	2015
Skull Creek Heights permit 298417-	Well Constructed	Domestic	100	0	2015
Wilderness Ranch permit 298701-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	58	0	2015
Goertz permit 299256-	Well Constructed	Domestic	0	10	2015
Migration Acres permit 294182-	Well Constructed	Domestic	380	0	2014
Rowley permit 295476-	Well Constructed	Domestic	150	15	1981
Wilderness Ranch permit 295418-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	210	0	2015
Estey Ranch permit 293218-	Well Constructed	Domestic	400	10	2014
Rio Grande Industrial Park permit 294152-	Well Constructed	Domestic	20	0	2015
Estey Ranch permit 294834-	Well Constructed	Domestic	360	0	2014
Estey Ranch permit 294835-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2014
Waipiti permit 124483--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	190	7.5	2014
Skull Creek Heights permit 295388-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	0	2015
Maybell Townsite permit 125575--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	85	0	2013
Sand Springs permit 291626-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2013
Wilderness Ranch No 3 (filing: 4137) permit 292248-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	160	5	2013
Quincy Rifle permit 136591--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	280	10	2013
Skull Creek Estates permit 288752-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	0	2012
Counts Business Park & Yampa View permit 288127-	Well Constructed	Domestic	460	11.5	2012
Wilderness Ranch permit 289550-	Well Constructed	Domestic	160	0	2013
Silver Sage Acres permit 289711-	Well Constructed	Stock	220	11.4	2012
Wilderness Ranch permit 284826-	Well Constructed	Domestic	120	5.5	2013
Cottonwood permit 284911-	Well Constructed	Domestic	260	7.5	2011
Maybell Townsite permit 285903-	Well Constructed	Domestic	95	0	2013
Flume Gulch permit 285905-	Well Constructed	Domestic	520	0	2011
Wildlife Estates #2 permit 286163-	Well Constructed	Domestic	430	0	2011
North Rancho Estates permit 193783--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	500	5	2011
Wildlife Estates permit 286412-	Well Constructed	Domestic	405	0	2011
Wilhite Minor permit 282487-	Well Constructed	Domestic	600	0	2010
Gustin Minor permit 282948-	Well Constructed	Domestic	420	0	2010
Wildlife Estates permit 283239-	Well Constructed	Domestic	380	0	2010
Fox Hill permit 283572-	Well Constructed	Domestic	400	0	2010
Wildlife Estates No. 2 permit 283711-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2010
Wildlife Estates No. 2 permit 283712-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2010
Craig South Highlands permit 283783-	Well Constructed	Domestic	800	0	2010
Skull Creek Estates permit 284064-	Well Constructed	Domestic	140	0	2010
Buckman permit 83785--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	4	2010
Sunbird Ranch permit 131143--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	400	0	2012
Wilderness Ranch permit 281371-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	200	0	2009
Wildlife Estates permit 280116-	Well Constructed	Domestic	360	0	2009
Johnson Acres permit 280119-	Well Constructed	Domestic	280	0	2010
Wildlife Estates permit 280122-	Well Constructed	Domestic	400	5	2010
Migration Acres permit 280384-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2009
North Rancho Estates permit 280792-	Well Constructed	Domestic	400	1.6	2009
Maybell permit 281349-	Well Constructed	Household Use Only	30	0	2009
Craig South Highlands permit 274981--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	175	7	2009

By decreed use in Moffat County

Domestic in Moffat County — 2,208

Counties with a comparable register

Conejos 5,774
Washington 5,722
Clear Creek 5,556
Baca 5,424
Pitkin 4,805
Eagle 4,742
Gilpin 4,606
Costilla 4,256
Huerfano 4,190
Lincoln 4,107
Montrose 3,965
Delta 3,935
Prowers 3,895

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.