Colorado ยท county water record
Water in Jackson County
What the state and federal record says about water here, before you look at any particular piece of ground. Every finding names the agency it came from.
- 1,839 Live water rights across 1,563 square miles
- 1,211 Wells drilled across 1,563 square miles
- 93,444 ac Irrigated ground across 1,563 square miles
- 105 ft Well depth middle value across 383 of 1,563 square miles
- 11 days Days called out middle value across 162 of 1,563 square miles
Point at any square mile to read what is on it. Hover the maps below to compare them.
Jackson County by the square mile
Every finding on this page is one number for the whole county. These are the same records placed on the ground they came from.
Live water rights. Decreed rights still on the books. This is where the paper water is, which is not the same map as where anybody drilled.
- none on record (bare ground)
- up to 1
- 2
- 3
- 4 to 6
- 7 to 16
- over 16
1,563 surveyed sections, drawn one square mile to a square. The shading is scaled against every county in Colorado, so a colour means the same thing on any of these pages. The outline is the county boundary from the Census Bureau: ground inside the line and outside the shading is ground nobody has drilled, filed on or addressed. Aerial imagery is the USGS National Map.
Stands out
Nobody pipes water in this county
There is no active community water system anywhere on the federal register here, so every property is on a well, a cistern, or a shared private supply.
EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System 2 of 60 counties
2 here 2nd of 60 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Stands out
It takes a long time to get from permit to water here
The median well takes 64 days from permit issue to completion, against 23 days across the state. Worth knowing before you plan a build around drilling next spring.
CDSS well permit action history 4 of 60 counties
64 days here 4th of 60 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Stands out
A lot of this county is wet ground
81% of sections carry poorly drained soil, against 40% across the state, meaning a water table close to the surface for part of the year. A foundation and septic constraint, and often the most productive ground on a property.
USDA SSURGO soil survey 5 of 59 counties
81% here 5th of 59 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Worth knowing
Half the wells drilled here never had a pump put in
69% of constructed wells have no pump installation on record. Somebody paid to drill a hole and walked away from it. A permit says you may drill; this is what happened when people did.
CDSS well permit action history 12 of 60 counties
69% here 12th of 60 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Context
Dams here are rated unsatisfactory
3 of this county's 58 dams carry an unsatisfactory condition rating. A storage right behind a failing dam is water you cannot count on.
Colorado Dam Safety 16 of 42 counties
3 here 16th of 42 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
This is the county. Your question is probably a property.
None of the above is about a particular parcel. Water is not parcel-shaped: the ditch serving the ground runs through other people's land and the senior right that curtails it sits somewhere else, which is why the state files by survey section rather than by property. Check an address and you get the square mile it sits in, with the wells, the rights and what was actually diverted.
Check a property in Jackson County