Cheyenne County's Extension office is at Cheyenne Wells on South 7th West, with the area office at Rocky Ford and the forestry office at La Junta. One duty here follows the land rather than whoever happens to occupy it. Colorado's Noxious Weed Act puts the obligation to manage listed weeds on the landowner, and it is the county weed manager who administers that locally, so an identification question goes to them, to this Extension office, or to the state weed programme's inbox.
This summary was drafted by a machine from the listings on this page, and an editor has not rewritten it yet.
boundary from the US Census Bureau
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Why Sierra Log & Timber cares about your vacant land
Sierra Log & Timber mills cedar log and timber home packages in Chico, California. A good part of our working week is spent with people who have just bought land, and the same thing happens every time: the grants, the chipping days, the defensible space visits and the permit desks are all real, and all scattered across a dozen county websites that do not link to one another. So we put them in one place and left it open. You do not have to be building a log home to use this, and reading it signs you up for nothing.
Nothing local is recorded for Cheyenne County yet. What is on this page reaches it from the Colorado and national listings above, which is worth knowing before you ring anybody: the help is real, but the desk answering is not in the county. We would rather say that than pad the page. If you know of something here that belongs on it, the second panel below is the fastest way to tell us.
Building on rural land in Cheyenne County
What applies here, in Colorado and in this county, each line with the source it was read from.
Where the building permit comes from
Cheyenne County Zoning & Planning / Land Use issues building permits here.
Colorado has no statewide building code; building codes are adopted and enforced at the local level, apart from public schools and health facilities, manufactured and factory-built housing, and site-built hotels, motels and multifamily buildings in jurisdictions with no codes.
The 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code is a state minimum code that applies to new construction and to significant exterior alterations and additions within the wildland-urban interface, and it is not a retrofit code.
The Colorado Division of Housing lists sixteen counties it knows to have no building department: Baca, Cheyenne, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, Delta, Dolores, Kit Carson, Mineral, Montezuma, Phillips, Prowers, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington and Yuma.
A homeowner may personally do the electrical and plumbing work at their own residence and must obtain a permit from the State Electrical Board or the State Plumbing Board, or from the local building department, before starting, provided the property is not for sale, resale or rent.
Does Sierra Log & Timber run any of these programmes?
No. Every organisation and programme on this page is run by somebody else: a county office, a state agency, a nonprofit, a utility or a tribe. We collect them, check them and publish them, and that is the whole of our part in it. What we do ourselves is mill cedar log and timber home packages in Chico, California.
Is this free to use, and does using it sign me up for anything?
The directory is free and reading it signs you up for nothing. The two panels below are the only places on this page that ask for an address, both are optional, and they do different jobs: one tells you when this county's listings change, the other tells us that something here is already wrong.
Numbers change and programmes run out of money. Leave an address and it is held against the Cheyenne County page so you can be told when a listing here is added, changed or removed. No account.
What is stored is your address and which county page you left it on, and nothing else: no name, no location, nothing about what you read. It is used for that one notification and for nothing else, it appears nowhere on this site, and this site cannot read the list back. Nothing has been sent to any address yet, because the notices are not built; when they are, every message will say how to stop them.
Something on this page is wrong?
Numbers change, offices move and programmes run out of money. If something on this page is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.
What you send goes to the people who maintain this directory and appears nowhere on this site. Your email is used to reply to you and for nothing else.
Free forecasts, fire weather outlooks and red flag warnings. A red flag warning is the weather service saying conditions are right for a fire to start easily and spread fast, which makes it the day to put off burning, grinding, welding or mowing dry grass until it lifts.
The two words to tell apart are watch and warning. A fire weather watch means the conditions are possible but are not here yet and are not certain, and it is issued to give land managers and the public time to get ready. A red flag warning means the critical fire weather is already happening or is about to, and the weather service issues it together with the land management agencies. If you were planning to burn, grind, weld or mow dry grass, a red flag warning is the day to leave it.
Free guidance on insurance claims, contractors, rebuilding and avoiding scams: the little yellow book, the Ask an Expert forum, and in person and Zoom clinics in disaster areas.
This is a consumer non-profit, not an insurer or a broker: it says it does not sell insurance or take money from insurance companies. The help is sorted by disaster, with libraries for the 2025 California wildfires in Los Angeles County and for 2026 fires in Colorado and the Spokane area, so start from the one that matches yours.