Hydrohistorian
Well permit 1856-AD
Well permit · receipt 0006116B · Division 1 · Water District 49 · Yuma County
What this permit is not
A well permit is the State Engineer’s permission to construct and use a well — it is not a decreed water right and confers none. DWR’s record limits its use to: Irrigation (category General Purpose).
It carries no WDID, so nothing on the decreed side of this site describes it. For an exempt household or stock well that is normal: such a well is exempt from administration in the priority system — a river call does not curtail it — and never needed a decree. For a non-exempt use it may mean the application expired, was denied, or was permitted under an augmentation plan DWR has not linked here. How permits, decrees and monitoring wells differ →
Permit details
| Status | Application Denied |
|---|---|
| Category | General Purpose |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.61057, -102.47382 (Spotted from quarters) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T5.0 S R46.0 W S24NWNW |
Nearby well permits
The 10 closest permits on record, as DWR describes them. Depth and static water level are what the driller reported at completion — one reading, on one day, not a monitored trend. See them on the map →
| Permit | Use | Distance | Depth | Static level | Yield | Completed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 928-AD | Irrigation | 0.0 km | — | — | — | — |
| 5301-AD | Irrigation | 0.29 km | — | — | — | — |
| 7119-AD | Irrigation | 0.29 km | — | — | — | — |
| 13228-FP | Irrigation | 0.77 km | 225 ft | — | 750.0 gpm | 1969-09-02 |
| 930-AD | Irrigation | 0.81 km | — | — | — | — |
| 2045-AD | Irrigation | 0.81 km | — | — | — | — |
| 5264-AD | Irrigation | 0.81 km | — | — | — | — |
| 10822-FP | Irrigation | 0.81 km | 244 ft | 135 ft | — | 1967-02-19 |
| 43912- | Domestic | 0.87 km | 258 ft | — | — | 1971-01-16 |
| 113809- | Domestic, Stock | 0.95 km | 262 ft | — | — | 1980-05-22 |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.