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Well permit 8981-
Well permit · receipt 9014232 · Division 1 · Water District 49 · Cheyenne 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: Stock (category Residential).
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 | Well Constructed |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 150.0 ft |
| Driller | SCHAAL DRILLING CO. (SCHAAL, RUBEN T.) |
| Permit issued | 1989-04-05 |
| Well completed | 1989-05-20 |
| First beneficial use | 1960-06-29 |
Location
| Coordinates | 39.00477, -102.56627 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T12.0 S R46.0 W S16NWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UP10667 | Unknown | 0.9 km | — | — | — | — |
| 340145- | Stock | 1.09 km | 194 ft | 170 ft | — | 2025-08-04 |
| 27-WCB | Stock | 1.43 km | 134 ft | — | — | — |
| 15872-F | Irrigation | 1.53 km | 168 ft | — | 600.0 gpm | 1972-05-10 |
| 324023- | Commercial | 1.54 km | 168 ft | — | — | 1972-05-10 |
| 12123- | Stock | 1.7 km | 153 ft | — | — | 1962-07-08 |
| UP10693 | Unknown | 1.75 km | — | — | — | — |
| 0441401A | Commercial | 1.82 km | — | — | — | — |
| 10475- | Domestic | 1.92 km | 170 ft | — | — | 1961-10-11 |
| 216024- | Domestic | 2.09 km | 180 ft | — | 14.0 gpm | — |
Sourced from DWR's well permits record, last updated 2015-12-22. This page mirrors DWR's own data unedited; for the authoritative, current record use the DWR link above.