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Data as of 2026-08-22
Parcel record

23905 Bear Creek

Hotchkiss, CO 81419

Private owner · Delta County, CO

CO ResidentUnmappedZone D
Est. market value
$85,600
$/sqft comp · high confidence
Assessor: $18,559 (ag-use)
Water rights
none on file
Lot size
195.95 ac
8,535,582 sf
Structure
None on record
400 sf
Value, lot & structure: Delta County Assessor · Water rights: CO Division of Water Resources (CDSS) · Retrieved 2026-08-22

Needs review means a record exists that requires verification. No record means nothing is on file — which is not an all-clear.

Acrescope Verdict
Diligence signal · exp.
3/100
low signal

A split estate — the minerals beneath are federally owned.

Federal Mineral Estate (Split Estate)
Federal-owned minerals below (split estate)
Operator-Adjacent Mineral Play
Producing well(s) + entity owner
Ranch Candidate
NextVerify mineral severance vs surface-only ownershipaction plan · 2 items
Acrescope Indicators
Filings: dormant
Proprietary multi-domain composite — distress, fire, geohazards, soils, ownership & water records joined to one parcel.
Signal 3/100 (low) — Among the lowest-signal in county
Motivated Seller Score
0/100
low
Among the least-motivated in county
Acrescope Risk Model v0.2 · experimentalNot yet calibrated — the cited records outrank the number. How it’s computed · geohazard/soil coverage for this parcel: 0%
Map view
Esri World Imagery · 39.01565, -107.50456· 258 water rights within 5 mi (nearest 80 mapped)· 36 O&G wells within 5 mi· 2 NIFC fire perimeters within 50 mi
Parcel Neighbor boundaryNearby parcel (by risk) Water right O&G well Fire perimeter · 2 within 50 mi

Action plan for this parcel

Prioritized recommendations derived from this parcel's patterns, applicable rebates, and county-level context.
  1. 1.

    Verify mineral severance vs surface-only ownership

    Criticalminerals

    0 producing wells on the parcel. In CO, surface and mineral rights are commonly severed — pull deed history to confirm what's actually owned. If minerals are reserved to a prior owner, royalties flow to them; if conveyed with surface, royalties + lease bonuses go to the current owner.

  2. 2.

    2 rebate programs match this address

    Recommendedrebate

    Across state, county, and local sponsors — up to $1,000 stackable. Includes Colorado Wildfire Mitigation Income Tax Credit; Forest Restoration and Wildfire Risk Mitigation (FRWRM) Grant.

Acrescope presents data and surfaces actions — it does not provide financial, legal, tax, or insurance advice. Confirm with a qualified professional before incurring costs.

The deal

What this parcel is worth, what encumbers it, and what its paper trail says — value, distress, listings, sales, and tax.

Estimated market valuehigh confidence
$/sqft comp — clean recent arms-length sales, by county.
Estimate
$85,600
range $68,400$104,800
County median
$214/sqft
400 sqft · 1633 comps
This parcel's recorded sale
⚠ part of a multi-parcel deed — not a per-parcel price
  • · County-level comp model — no adjustment for condition, view, or remodel. An estimate, not an appraisal.
Ranch land value estimatehigh confidence
Comp model — clean single-parcel arms-length ag sales, by county $/acre.
Estimated land value
$761,266
range $372,893$1,758,063
County median
$3,885/ac
196 ac · 460 comps
This parcel's recorded sale
⚠ part of a multi-parcel deed — not a per-parcel price

Why this differs from the assessor value above: Colorado assesses agricultural-classified land on grazing productivity (ag-use value), typically ~30–40× below market. This estimate instead applies the county median $/acre from clean single-parcel arms-length ag sales (bulk multi-parcel deeds, government/exempt land, and nominal transfers excluded). An estimate, not an appraisal.

Distress signals

No distress filings on record for this parcel. We monitor county clerk recordings (NEDs, lis pendens, liens, judgements) and join them via fuzzy name match.

For sale

No active for-sale listings on record for this parcel. We track public-record foreclosure-sale lists (county Public Trustee) and attach them here when a sale is scheduled.

Sale history
1 recorded sale
  • 2016-02-25
    $0 / non-arms-length

Source: county assessor sale records. $0-price entries are typically non-arms-length transfers (quitclaim, intra-family, estate). They appear on the deed chain but don't reflect market value.

Tax mailing

PO BOX 25, HOTCHKISS, CO 81419-0025

The land

What the ground itself is — cover, soils, buildability, water, minerals, and the public land around it.

Land cover
NLCD 2021 — Deciduous Forest predominant. “Open” = grazable shrub, grass, pasture & crop.
Forest97%
Open / grazable3%
Developed0%
Water / wetland0%
Buildability
Construction feasibility synthesized across slope, soils, landslide & flood — the constraints a land buyer pays for, joined to one parcel.
Build constraint
Favorable

No significant build constraints in the data available for this parcel.

Partial coverage — based on the soil/geohazard layers present for this parcel; the read sharpens as those backfill.

Climate profile
Long-run climate normals at the parcel centroid, averaged over 20142023. Drives growing season & water for ranch/ag use, plus snow load for buildability.
Mean annual precipitation
23.0 in
Mean annual snowfall
105 inHeavy snow load
Mean annual temperature
41°F
Frost-free season
156 days/yr(moderate growing season)

Source: Open-Meteo Historical Weather archive (ERA5 reanalysis), 20142023 daily normals. Frost-free days count days whose overnight low stayed above 32°F. The snow-load band is a buyer-facing heuristic from annual snowfall, not an engineered ground-snow-load design value — confirm with the local building department before relying on it.

Water security
Decreed surface-water rights & seniority synthesized into one prior-appropriation read — the water question a ranch or land buyer leads with.
Water security
Vulnerable

No decreed water rights on record — on-site water would rely on a well permit or hauled water. A real constraint in a drought- or fire-exposed area.

Water rights

No water rights linked to this parcel. We spatially join CO Division of Water Resources records within 200m of the parcel centroid. Most non-agricultural mountain parcels have none on file.

Oil & gas wells

No oil & gas wells within ½ mile of this parcel. Sourced from the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) public registry.

Adjacent federal lands
Nearest USFS / NPS / BLM / FWS-managed units within ~5 mi of the parcel centroid. Source: USGS PAD-US v3.0.
  • USFS· NF
    Gunnison National Forest
    Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests
    parcel inside unit boundary
    0 mi
    1,667K ac

Distance is measured to the nearest edge of each unit's bounding box (a fast approximation, not precise polygon containment). “Inside unit boundary” means the parcel centroid sits within the unit's bbox; verify against the unit's precise boundary before acting.

Federal mineral estate
Split estate · find more
This parcel's centroid sits inside 6 BLM-mapped federal mineral-estate polygons — meaning the federal government owns some or all of the minerals beneath this surface property (a “split estate”).
Mineral rights designation
Coal Only; No Minerals
Federal estate acres overlapping
8,480

Source: BLM Colorado Federal Mineral Estate (Solid Colors). Split-estate ownership is common in the Western US — verify deed history and any mineral-rights conveyance/reservation before relying on this signal.

Active BLM oil & gas leases (1)
Federal oil/gas leases currently authorized or pending covering this parcel — pairs with the federal mineral estate signal above.

Commodities: Oil & Gas

  • COCO105549018COCO105549018Held by Actual Production
    1,092 ac· eff 2001

Source: BLM National MLRS Oil & Gas Leases (CO scope). An active lease doesn't guarantee drilling will occur — only that the lessee has the federal right to develop subject to permits.

The risk

What could burn, flood, slide, or fail to insure — and how exposed this parcel actually is.

Active wildfires within 50 miles (2)
Source: NIFC Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) current perimeters. Updated multiple times daily.
IncidentAcresContainedDistance
310603100%37.3 mi
Kittle2540.7 mi
Climate & environmental risk
Wildfire damage potential (CO-WRA)
Unmapped

Wildfire damage potential is not yet mapped for this parcel.

CO-WRA bld_dmg_pot tier
Unmapped
Acrescope wildfire component (0-100)
0

Source: Colorado Wildfire Risk Assessment (CO-WRA) · bld_dmg_pot

FEMA flood zone
Zone D

FEMA-mapped Zone D. Moderate hazard; flood insurance is not federally mandated but should be considered.

FEMA NFHL zone
D
Special Flood Hazard Area
No
Acrescope flood component (0-100)
10
Actions that move this rating
  • Preferred Risk Policy (PRP)Non-SFHA NFIP coverage is cheap (often $400-700/yr) and protects against the surprise flood event a moderate zone implies.

Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL)

In Special Flood Hazard Area?
No
Nearest SNOTEL station
Overland Res.8.7 mi · 9,890 ft
Snowpack reference for this area — link out for current SWE + 30-year normal.
Emergency services proximity
Drive time via OpenRouteService. Falls back to straight-line distance until cached. Service locations from OpenStreetMap.
Nearest fire station
11.3 mi
Paonia Fire Department
CO
Nearest hospital
37.1 mi
Valley View Hospital
1906 Blake Avenue, Glenwood Springs, CO, 81601
Drive time is computed on first view; refresh in a few seconds to see actual minutes.

The owner

Who holds it, through what entity, and what else that owner holds.

Corporate ownership

Individual owner of record. No Colorado Secretary of State business entity matched to this parcel's owner name.

Neighborhood cluster · Quiet cluster
13 parcels within 1 mile of this property. Average Acrescope Risk Score: 2/100.
13
parcels nearby
0
with distress
0
high-risk (50+)
Neighborhood demographics
Block group 964600-3 · ACS 2022 5-year estimate. Population 686.
Median home value
$397,900
Median age
54.6
Owner-occupied
54.2%(346 of 638 units)
Bachelor's degree or higher
59%
Vacancy rate
36.7%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2022 5-year estimates, block group 080299646003. Block groups average ~1,500 people; these stats describe the surrounding community, not this parcel specifically.

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  • Recommended diligencethe complete prioritized checklist for this parcel (free: top action above)
  • Property & valuationcomp set, ag use-value adjustment, valuation walk-through (free: assessor value above)
  • Land & stewardshipland cover, soils, buildability, regenerative potential
  • Water & subsurfaceeach decreed right with priority date, WDID, and diversion history (free: counts above)
  • Climate & hazardsburn history, insurability workup, mitigation rebate stack (free: tiers above)
  • Distress & ownershipfiling-by-filing record and the owner’s full entity network (free: flags above)
  • Sources & methodologyevery source record linked, dated, and retrievable
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Delta County Assessor · record of parcel
Parcel ID
b1e392c1-2d91-4859-8d64-6494d8a48b95
APN
298513100001
Schedule
R000781
Retrieved 2026-08-22
Records as of, by domain
Assessor record
2026-08-22
Sale history
2026-06-02
Water rights
2026-08-20
Well permits
2026-06-09
Oil & gas wells
2026-08-20
Federal mineral estate
2026-08-22
Flood zones
2026-06-03
Fire perimeters
2026-08-22
Distress filings
2026-08-22
Entity registrations
2026-08-22
Conservation easements
2026-06-11

The date our copy of that office’s records last changed — domains update on different cadences.