Stock wells in Yuma County

3,302 of the 12,410 well permits in Yuma County — 26.6% — are decreed for stock.

How this group compares

Yuma County holds 10.5% of Colorado’s 31,328 stock permits, while holding 2.1% of the register overall — so it is over-represented in this use.

Stock means watering livestock.

What happened to these permits

2,323 of the 3,302 permits decreed for stock in Yuma County ended with a well the Division was told about — 70.4%. And 181 expired without one: 5.5%.

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.

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

3,302 well permits are on the Division’s register in Yuma County, 181 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 12,410 permits in Yuma County, and every stock permit in Colorado.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring/sampling — Boulder 3,864
• Domestic — Alamosa 3,719
• Domestic — Morgan 3,592
• Household Use Only — Fremont 3,535
• Domestic — Yuma 3,411
• Household Use Only — Clear Creek 3,399
• Domestic — Conejos 3,242
• Irrigation — Alamosa 3,228
• Monitoring/sampling — Larimer 3,225
• Domestic — Grand 3,209
• Household Use Only — El Paso 3,204