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

> 2,865 well permits in Phillips County. The median well is 270 feet deep. What the permits allow, how many expired, and what the Division was told about depth and yield.

## Well permits in Phillips County

**2,865** well permits — 0.5% of Colorado’s register. The median well here is **270 feet** deep, against 148 feet statewide.

### How deep people drill in Phillips 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 | **270 ft** | 340 ft | 148 ft — deeper here (1,499 permits, 52 %) |
| Yield | **20 gpm** | 1500 gpm | 10 gpm — higher here (516 permits, 18 %) |
| Static water level | **146 ft** | 203 ft | 58 ft — higher here (1,282 permits, 45 %) |

### 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 |
|---|---|---|
| [Irrigation](/county/phillips/irrigation.md) | 1,345 | 46.9% |
| [Domestic](/use/domestic.md) | 960 | 33.5% |
| [Stock](/use/stock.md) | 245 | 8.6% |
| [Monitoring/sampling](/use/monitoring-sampling.md) | 130 | 4.5% |
| [Commercial](/use/commercial.md) | 72 | 2.5% |
| [Not stated](/use/not-stated.md) | 45 | 1.6% |
| [Other](/use/other.md) | 44 | 1.5% |
| [Municipal](/use/municipal.md) | 14 | 0.5% |
| [Geothermal](/use/geothermal.md) | 6 | 0.2% |
| [Household Use Only](/use/household-use-only.md) | 2 | 0.1% |
| Dewatering | 1 | 0.0% |
| [Industrial](/use/industrial.md) | 1 | 0.0% |

### What happened to these permits

**935** of the 2,865 permits in Phillips County ended with a
well the Division was told about — 32.6%. And
**356** expired without one: 12.4%.

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 | 935 | 32.6% |
| Application Denied | 489 | 17.1% |
| Final Permit | 393 | 13.7% |
| Permit Expired | 356 | 12.4% |
| Permit Issued | 201 | 7.0% |
| Well Abandoned | 128 | 4.5% |
| Permit Canceled | 90 | 3.1% |
| Well Replaced - Abandonment Required | 63 | 2.2% |
| Application Information Requested | 32 | 1.1% |
|   | 31 | 1.1% |

### Which aquifers

| Aquifer | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| [All Unnamed Aquifers](/aquifer/all-unnamed-aquifers.md) | 1,709 | 59.7% |
| [Ogallala](/aquifer/ogallala.md) | 1,087 | 37.9% |
| [Not stated](/aquifer/not-stated.md) | 39 | 1.4% |
| High Plains Aquifer | 22 | 0.8% |
| High Plains | 5 | 0.2% |
| [Quaternary Alluvium](/aquifer/quaternary-alluvium.md) | 2 | 0.1% |
| [Alluvial](/aquifer/alluvial.md) | 1 | 0.0% |

### When the permits were issued

| Issued in | Permits | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2020s | 120 | 4.2% |
| 2010s | 182 | 6.4% |
| 2000s | 278 | 9.7% |
| 1990s | 332 | 11.6% |
| 1980s | 171 | 6.0% |
| 1970s | 378 | 13.2% |
| 1960s | 102 | 3.6% |
| 1950s | 33 | 1.2% |
| 1900s | 1 | 0.0% |

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

2,865 well permits are on the Division’s register in Phillips County, 356 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 Phillips County

*Well permits, Phillips County — 36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Tract 2](/search.md) permit 297486--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 340 | 50 | 2023 |
| [Ferguson](/search.md) permit 322481- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 250 | 0 | 2021 |
| [Ferguson](/search.md) permit 322482- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 250 | 30 | 2021 |
| [Ferguson](/search.md) permit 323230- | Well Constructed | Commercial | 260 | 0 | 2021 |
| [Pace Homestead](/search.md) permit 319103- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 240 | 10 | 2020 |
| [Exemption 240025](/search.md) permit 300956- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 240 | 10 | 2016 |
| [Phillips County Subdivision Exemption](/search.md) permit 297259- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 240 | 10 | 2015 |
| [Amherst Town of First Addition](/search.md) permit 281109--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 240 | 15 | 2009 |
| [Amherst Town of](/search.md) permit 274117- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 173 | 0 | 2007 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 257707--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 240 | 0 | 2004 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 212409- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 0 | 0 | 1998 |
| [Amherst Town of](/search.md) permit 187261--A | Well Constructed | Commercial | 260 | 0 | 1995 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 188365--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 240 | 15 | 1995 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 189262- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 220 | 0 | 1995 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 159292--A | Well Constructed | Domestic | 250 | 0 | 1990 |
| [Frenchman Heights](/search.md) permit 62-G | Well Constructed | Other | 200 | 0 | 1989 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 152661- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 0 | 0 | 1988 |
| [Park Lane](/search.md) permit 4-G | Well Constructed | Other | 160 | 0 | 1984 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 128467- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 285 | 7.5 | 1982 |
| [Auskeef Compart](/search.md) permit 116316- | Well Constructed | Commercial | 260 | 15 | 1980 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 98854- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 270 | 15 | 1987 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 86883- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 245 | 10 | 1976 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 78912- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 270 | 12 | 1975 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 75450- | Well Constructed | Domestic | 250 | 20 | 1974 |
| [Auskeef](/search.md) permit 339395- | Permit Issued | Domestic | 0 | 0 | 2025 |
| [Amherst Town of First Addition](/search.md) permit 281109- | Well Abandoned | Domestic | 160 | 0 | 2009 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 257707- | Well Abandoned | Domestic | 0 | 0 | 2004 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 95221-VE | Permit Issued | Domestic | 0 | 0 | 1995 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 187261- | Well Replaced - Abandonment Required | Commercial | 200 | 0 | 1995 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 95151-VE | Permit Issued | Commercial | 0 | 0 | 1995 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 188365- | Well Replaced - Abandonment Required | Domestic | 100 | 0 | 1995 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 189262--A | Permit Expired | Domestic | 0 | 0 | 1995 |
| [Exemption](/search.md) permit 184284--A | Well Replaced - Abandonment Required | Domestic | 360 | 40 | 1994 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 159292- | Well Replaced - Abandonment Required | Domestic | 0 | 0 | 1991 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 90431-VE | Permit Issued | Domestic | 0 | 0 | 1990 |
| [Amherst](/search.md) permit 152661--A | Permit Expired | Domestic | 0 | 0 | 1988 |
| [342498-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 260 | 0 | 1971 |
| [17426-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 295 | 800 | 2026 |
| [14088-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 330 | 800 | 2025 |
| [339810-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 300 | 38 | 2025 |
| [337331-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 275 | 0 | 1968 |
| [337268-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 295 | 42 | 2025 |
| [337545-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 300 | 700 | 1969 |
| [338284-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 320 | 20 | 2025 |
| [20443-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 389 | 1500 | 2025 |
| [338323-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 370 | 0 | 2025 |
| [338691-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Commercial | 280 | 0 | 2025 |
| [338800--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 280 | 42 | 2025 |
| [338906--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 310 | 38.5 | 2025 |
| [2314-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 340 | 780 | 2026 |
| [12649-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 319 | 500 | 2026 |
| [14742-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 340 | 905 | 2026 |
| [20239-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 355 | 1500 | 2024 |
| [333690-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 260 | 0 | 2024 |
| [333796-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 150 | 26 | 2024 |
| [334095--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 280 | 0 | 2024 |
| [334522--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 300 | 0 | 2024 |
| [335778-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 280 | 0 | 1974 |
| [33050--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 300 | 43 | 2025 |
| [329716--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 300 | 0 | 2023 |
| [330316--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 260 | 0 | 2023 |
| [330695-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 310 | 35 | 2023 |
| [330718-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 290 | 0 | 2024 |
| [82933--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 210 | 0 | 2024 |
| [12015-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 325 | 800 | 2023 |
| [332720-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 340 | 43 | 2024 |
| [332697--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 300 | 0 | 2023 |
| [332658-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 270 | 0 | 2003 |
| [325164-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 320 | 20 | 2022 |
| [325393-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 200 | 0 | 2023 |
| [325789-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 340 | 0 | 2022 |
| [6412-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 360 | 0 | 2022 |
| [326031-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 312 | 24 | 2022 |
| [116104--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 340 | 20 | 2022 |
| [327466-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 340 | 0 | 2022 |
| [98842--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 310 | 25 | 2022 |
| [38806--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 340 | 20 | 2022 |
| [32634--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 340 | 50 | 2024 |
| [328155-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 320 | 38 | 2022 |
| [328731-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 340 | 33 | 2022 |
| [328799-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 245 | 0 | 2023 |
| [299765--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 320 | 10 | 2022 |
| [329024-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 334 | 20 | 2024 |
| [5009-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 301 | 0 | 2023 |
| [19688-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 310 | 800 | 2021 |
| [321008-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 300 | 7 | 2021 |
| [321544--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 380 | 10 | 2021 |
| [322634-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Monitoring/sampling | 220 | 3 | 2021 |
| [322635-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Monitoring/sampling | 300 | 7 | 2021 |
| [323643-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 300 | 10 | 2021 |
| [323469-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 220 | 0 | 2021 |
| [3196--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 213 | 0 | 2021 |
| [324091-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 300 | 0 | 2021 |
| [314872--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 220 | 0 | 2022 |
| [324050-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 313 | 46 | 2021 |
| [324930-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 260 | 10 | 2022 |
| [324947-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 305 | 10 | 1972 |
| [318942-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 160 | 6 | 2020 |
| [317230-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Stock | 270 | 0 | 2020 |
| [317497-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Commercial | 300 | 0 | 2021 |
| [4900-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 330 | 850 | 2020 |
| [118989--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 300 | 0 | 2020 |
| [17622--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 320 | 30 | 2020 |
| [317973--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 380 | 10 | 2020 |
| [318776-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 380 | 0 | 2020 |
| [318915--A](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 200 | 0 | 2021 |
| [318731-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 280 | 0 | 2020 |
| [319550-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Domestic | 300 | 2 | 2020 |
| [316642-](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Commercial | 260 | 30 | 1980 |
| [5453-FP-R](/search.md) | Well Constructed | Irrigation | 240 | 750 | 2016 |

### By decreed use in Phillips County

- [Irrigation in Phillips County](/county/phillips/irrigation.md) — 1,345

### Counties with a comparable register

- [Montrose](/county/montrose.md) 3,965
- [Delta](/county/delta.md) 3,935
- [Prowers](/county/prowers.md) 3,895
- [Archuleta](/county/archuleta.md) 3,805
- [Rio Blanco](/county/rio-blanco.md) 3,486
- [San Miguel](/county/san-miguel.md) 3,416
- [Otero](/county/otero.md) 3,393
- [Lake](/county/lake.md) 2,756
- [Bent](/county/bent.md) 2,362
- [Sedgwick](/county/sedgwick.md) 2,293
- [Cheyenne](/county/cheyenne.md) 2,133
- [Montezuma](/county/montezuma.md) 2,111
- [Jackson](/county/jackson.md) 1,625

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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Recolha: 2026-08-21