# Water wells in Archer County, Texas — how deep, and through what

> 248 well reports filed in Archer County since 2001. Median depth 40 ft, water struck at 14 ft, median yield 5 gpm.

## Water wells in Archer County, Texas

**248** well reports on file. The median well here was taken to **40 ft** and struck water at **14 ft** — against 180 ft and 80 ft across Texas.

### What you will drill through in Archer County

*Logged in Archer County, by depth. The figure is how many wells hit it.*

| Depth, ft | What was logged there |
|---|---|
| 0–25 ft | **Red Clay** 45 , **Topsoil** 42 , **Yellow Sandstone** 9 , **Sand** 15 , **Red Sandy Clay** 14 , **Red Shale** 14 |
| 25–50 ft | **Red Clay** 18 , **Sand** 12 , **Gray Clay** 8 , **Red Shale** 8 , **Sandstone** 5 , **Red Silty Clay With Gray Sand Consolidated Layers** 5 |
| 50–100 ft | **Sand** 17 , **Red Clay** 16 , **Gray Shale** 8 , **Gray Clay** 6 , **Red Shale** 6 , **Brown Shale** 4 |
| 100–200 ft | **Sand** 18 , **Gray Shale** 14 , **Red Clay** 5 , **Sandy Shale** 4 , **Red Shale** 2 , **Brown Shale** 2 |
| 200–300 ft | **Sand** 7 , **Gray Shale** 5 , **Red And Gray Shale** 3 , **Red Clay** 3 , **Sand And Conglomerate** 1 , **Coal** 1 |
| 300–500 ft | **Gray Shale** 5 , **Sand** 4 , **Gray And Red Shale** 2 , **Lime Rock** 1 , **Shale And Sand** 1 , **Shale With Hard Sand** 1 |
| 500–1000 ft | **Sand** 2 , **Gray Shale** 1 , **Lime** 1 , **Shale And Lime** 1 , **Red Clay** 1 |

The rock column here is what drillers wrote down, layer by layer, in their own words — 5,345,462 layers across 707,856 wells. It is not a geological survey: two drillers may call the same clay by two names, and this site does not correct them.

### Who drills in Archer County

*Licensed firms in Archer County, busiest first.*

| Firm of record | Wells | Median depth, ft | Median yield, gpm | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Talon Drilling, LP](/driller/talon-drilling-lp.md) | 60 | 25 | — | 2002–2009 |
| [Erwin Water Well Drilling](/driller/erwin-water-well-drilling.md) | 22 | 200 | 6 | 2001–2022 |
| [Water Well Drilling and Service](/driller/water-well-drilling-and-service.md) | 22 | 100 | 5 | 2013–2014 |
| [AOC Environmental, Inc.](/driller/aoc-environmental-inc.md) | 16 | 44 | 10 | 2011–2015 |
| [Sunbelt Industrial Services](/driller/sunbelt-industrial-services.md) | 14 | 18 | — | 2010–2020 |
| [Prater Water Well](/driller/prater-water-well.md) | 13 | 55 | 4 | 2008–2020 |
| [W.E.S.T. Drilling](/driller/w-e-s-t-drilling.md) | 12 | 15 | — | 2002 |
| [Fuel Tech](/driller/fuel-tech.md) | 11 | 30 | 12 | 2001–2005 |
| [Gillispie Drilling](/driller/gillispie-drilling.md) | 10 | 62 | 5 | 2005–2024 |
| [Environmental Logistics Company, LLC](/driller/environmental-logistics-company-llc.md) | 7 | 20 | — | 2018–2024 |
| Geo-Cat Drilling | 7 | 40 | 1 | 2015–2017 |
| [Talon/LPE](/driller/talon-lpe.md) | 6 | 20 | — | 2012 |
| Adams Drilling | 5 | 28 | 10 | 2014 |
| [Savage Excavation](/driller/savage-excavation.md) | 4 | 50 | — | 2025–2026 |
| [Erwin Drilling](/driller/erwin-drilling.md) | 4 | 340 | 15 | 2020–2022 |
| [Water Well Drilling & Service](/driller/water-well-drilling-service.md) | 4 | 180 | 4 | 2013 |
| [Jimmy D. Miller](/driller/jimmy-d-miller.md) | 4 | 30 | 10 | 2004 |
| [Next-Gen Solutions, Inc.](/driller/next-gen-solutions-inc.md) | 3 | — | — | 2011 |
| [CM2, Inc.](/driller/cm2-inc.md) | 3 | 15 | — | 2003 |
| [Double J Water Wells, LLC](/driller/double-j-water-wells-llc.md) | 2 | 105 | — | 2025 |
| JB Water Well Drilling | 2 | 150 | 10 | 2013–2014 |
| TalonLPE | 2 | 20 | — | 2013 |
| Water Men Drilling & Services | 2 | 60 | 2 | 2012 |
| Lowery's Water Well Drilling | 2 | 80 | 5 | 2012 |
| [Vortex Drilling, Inc.](/driller/vortex-drilling-inc.md) | 2 | — | — | 2009 |

### What the wells are for

*Purpose, and how deep each went.*

| Purpose | Wells | Share | Median depth, ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monitor | 97 | 39.1% | 20 |
| Domestic | 53 | 21.4% | 100 |
| Stock | 33 | 13.3% | 62 |
| Irrigation | 25 | 10.1% | 60 |
| Environmental Soil Boring | 21 | 8.5% | 15 |
| Test Well | 14 | 5.6% | 82 |
| Unknown | 3 | 1.2% | 140 |
| Closed-Loop Geothermal | 2 | 0.8% | 195 |

*By decade drilled.*

| Decade | Reports | Median depth, ft | Water at, ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 100 | 25 | 5 |
| 2010s | 118 | 60 | 19 |
| 2020s | 30 | 68 | 14 |

### The deepest reports on file

*Deepest reports in Archer County. Column one is the tracking number.*

| Report | Year | Depth, ft | Water at, ft | Yield, gpm | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 594916 | 2021 | 580 | — | — | Domestic |
| 603548 | 2022 | 560 | — | 15 | Domestic |
| 620906 | 2022 | 500 | — | — | Domestic |
| 443905 | 2016 | 480 | — | — | Unknown |
| 602518 | 2022 | 340 | — | — | Domestic |
| 340580 | 2013 | 320 | — | — | Domestic |
| 577328 | 2021 | 300 | — | 6 | Domestic |
| 344561 | 2013 | 300 | — | — | Stock |
| 84848 | 2006 | 300 | 180 | 2 | Domestic |
| 4630 | 2001 | 300 | 140 | 7 | Domestic |

Every figure on this site is a **median**, never an average. On reported yield the average is twice the median, because a handful of entries are typing errors — the largest reads 2,200,100 gallons per minute against 30,078 for the next one. Yields above 3,000 gpm (136 wells, 0.045%) and depths beyond 5,000 ft (103 wells, 0.016%) are kept in the file, marked, and left out of the medians.

### Drilling a well in Archer County?

Depth is only half the quote. What it costs depends on the rock, the casing and the pump. Tell us where and we pass the request to licensed Texas drillers.

We are nobody's agent and have no arrangement with any firm today. [What we do with this](/privacy.md).

### Counties with a comparable number of reports

- [Camp](/county/camp.md)
- [Culberson](/county/culberson.md)
- [Stephens](/county/stephens.md)
- [Baylor](/county/baylor.md)
- [Presidio](/county/presidio.md)
- [Red River](/county/red-river.md)
- [Willacy](/county/willacy.md)
- [Kent](/county/kent.md)
- [Zapata](/county/zapata.md)
- [Cottle](/county/cottle.md)
- [Rains](/county/rains.md)
- [Foard](/county/foard.md)
- [Hudspeth](/county/hudspeth.md)

A sliding window, not a ranking. [Every county](/county.md).

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Página: https://texas-water-wells.pages.dev/county/archer/
Fonte: Texas Submitted Driller's Report Database — Texas Water Development Board, from reports filed with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
Recolha: 2026-08-23