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Water in Logan 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.
- 1,921 Live water rights across 1,836 square miles
- 6,651 Wells drilled across 1,836 square miles
- 103,701 ac Irrigated ground across 1,836 square miles
- 161 ft Well depth middle value across 1,241 of 1,836 square miles
- 305 days Days called out middle value across 367 of 1,836 square miles
Point at any square mile to read what is on it. Hover the maps below to compare them.
Logan 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
1,836 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.
Worth knowing
A lot of the water decreed here was never built
12% of rights are conditional only, against 5% across the state. A court said somebody may build it and nobody has.
CDSS water rights, net amounts 6 of 58 counties
12% here 6th of 58 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Worth knowing
Ground here is prime farmland, but only if it is irrigated
73% of sections carry soil the USDA classes as 'prime farmland if irrigated'. That qualifier is the whole sentence: the soil is excellent and the classification depends on water reaching it. It is what an appraiser and a conservation easement both test against.
USDA SSURGO soil survey 9 of 52 counties
73% here 9th of 52 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Worth knowing
Wells here get plugged and abandoned more than most
16.4% of well permits end in a plugging, 875 wells in all. A well sealed shut is the clearest verdict a driller ever files.
CDSS well permit action history 12 of 60 counties
16.4% here 12th of 60 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Context
Half the wells drilled here never had a pump put in
56% 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 31 of 60 counties
56% here 31st of 60 One bar per Colorado county from lowest to highest. Point at one to name it.
Context
A lot of this county is wet ground
23% of sections carry poorly drained soil, 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 43 of 59 counties
23% here 43rd of 59 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 Logan County