Hydrohistorian
Well permit 72871-
Well permit · receipt 9070291 · Division 1 · Water District 65 · Yuma County
Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR permit record ↗
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: Domestic, 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 Abandoned |
|---|---|
| Category | Residential |
| Total depth | 51.0 ft |
| Driller | TWISS & WILSON (WILSON, BRUCE) |
| Permit issued | 1973-12-26 |
| Well completed | 1974-01-28 |
| First beneficial use | 1974-01-28 |
| Well plugged | 1984-11-26 |
Location
| Coordinates | 40.08264, -102.08260 (Spotted from section lines) |
|---|---|
| PLSS | S PM, T1.0 N R42.0 W S5NWSE |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72871--A | Domestic | 0.0 km | 75 ft | — | 35.0 gpm | 1984-06-08 |
| 1574- | Stock | 0.8 km | 93 ft | — | — | 1958-07-26 |
| 148174- | Domestic, Stock | 0.93 km | 100 ft | — | — | 1960-12-31 |
| 305950- | Domestic, Stock | 0.93 km | 80 ft | 55 ft | 7.0 gpm | 2017-08-16 |
| 21628- | Domestic | 0.99 km | 29 ft | — | 10.0 gpm | 1964-09-24 |
| 10691- | Domestic | 1.06 km | 50 ft | — | — | 1962-02-15 |
| 29794- | Stock | 1.07 km | 30 ft | — | — | 1967-02-16 |
| 160214- | Domestic | 1.17 km | 60 ft | — | — | — |
| 91142-VE | Irrigation | 1.17 km | — | — | — | — |
| 134099- | Domestic | 1.18 km | 43 ft | — | — | 1984-01-09 |
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.