Domestic wells in Moffat County

2,208 of the 4,379 well permits in Moffat County — 50.4% — are decreed for domestic.

How this group compares

Moffat County holds 0.9% of Colorado’s 243,096 domestic permits, while holding 0.7% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Domestic means household water, and usually a little more — the commonest decreed use in Colorado by a wide margin.

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	250 ft	480 ft	148 ft — deeper here (1,554 permits, 70 %)
Yield	8 gpm	15 gpm	10 gpm — lower here (354 permits, 16 %)
Static water level	60 ft	196 ft	58 ft — higher here (1,185 permits, 54 %)

What happened to these permits

1,449 of the 2,208 permits decreed for domestic in Moffat County ended with a well the Division was told about — 65.6%. And 386 expired without one: 17.5%.

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.

Status	Permits	Share
Well Constructed	1,449	65.6%
Permit Expired	386	17.5%
Permit Issued	121	5.5%
Permit Canceled	58	2.6%
Well Replaced - Abandonment Required	53	2.4%
Well Abandoned	34	1.5%
Application Information Requested	28	1.3%
Permit Expired (Pump Installed)	27	1.2%
Permit Extended	15	0.7%
Application Received	13	0.6%

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

2,208 well permits are on the Division’s register in Moffat County, 386 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

Domestic 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
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
North Rancho Estate permit 325111-	Well Constructed	Domestic	180	0	2025
North Rancho Estate permit 325110-	Well Constructed	Domestic	180	0	2025
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 326912-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2022
Skull Creek permit 323612--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	560	3	2022
Clayton Minor Subdivision permit 188073--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2023
Walker Property Plat permit 329397-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	15	2007
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
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
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
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 298217-	Well Constructed	Domestic	180	0	2015
Skull Creek Heights permit 298417-	Well Constructed	Domestic	100	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
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
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
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
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
Craig South Highlands permit 274981--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	175	7	2009
Lyster Minor permit 281857-	Well Constructed	Domestic	460	0	2009
Lyster Minor #2 permit 281858-	Well Constructed	Domestic	460	0	2009
Hall Exemption permit 276736-	Well Constructed	Domestic	265	0	2008
Fox Hill permit 277027-	Well Constructed	Domestic	280	6	2008
Silver Sage Acres permit 277613-	Well Constructed	Domestic	225	0	2008
Santisteven 2 permit 278258-	Well Constructed	Domestic	483	0	2008
Elk Springs Ranch permit 278915-	Well Constructed	Domestic	80	11	2008
Migration Acres Ii permit 279049-	Well Constructed	Domestic	200	0	2008
Pankey View permit 279525-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2009
Schwan Minor permit 273265-	Well Constructed	Domestic	500	0	2007
Estey Ranch permit 273724-	Well Constructed	Domestic	190	0	2007
Wilderness Ranch permit 275366-	Well Constructed	Domestic	39	10	2009
Fox Hill permit 121487--A	Well Constructed	Domestic	480	0	2007
Wildlife Estates permit 272060-	Well Constructed	Domestic	300	0	2007
Sunbird Ranch permit 273197-	Well Constructed	Domestic	255	0	2008
Williams permit 273198-	Well Constructed	Domestic	500	5	2007
North Rancho Estates permit 273390-	Well Constructed	Domestic	489	0	1979
Lay Creek Estates permit 273391-	Well Constructed	Domestic	245	0	2007
Lay Creek Estates permit 273392-	Well Constructed	Domestic	240	0	2007
Lay Creek Estates permit 273393-	Well Constructed	Domestic	270	0	2007
Migration Acres permit 273502-	Well Constructed	Domestic	245	7	2007
Johnson Acres permit 273503-	Well Constructed	Domestic	280	10	2007
Wildlife Estates permit 273788-	Well Constructed	Domestic	345	15	2007

Part of a bigger picture: all 4,379 permits in Moffat County, and every domestic permit in Colorado.

Domestic wells in Moffat County

How this group compares

What happened to these permits

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The permits

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