# What is covered — texas-water-wells

> Well reports submitted from 2001 onward. Wells drilled earlier are on an older system and are not here.

## What is covered

An area with few reports is not an area with few wells. It may simply have been drilled earlier.

This covers well reports filed from 2001 onward, which is when Texas began collecting them electronically. Wells drilled before then are on the TCEQ's older system and are not here. An area with few reports is not an area with few wells — it may simply be an area drilled earlier.

### What is in the file

**708,722** reports, submitted between 2001 and 2026, across
**254** Texas counties and **4,187** cells
of the state well grid. **121,886** of those wells have
since been plugged, and their plugging report number is on the record.

⚠️ **434** reports (0.1%)
carry a drilling year earlier than 2001. Most are late filings for older
wells, and a handful are plainly typing errors — one reads 1901. We
show the year as filed and do not correct it, but we do not derive the
site’s coverage from it: the coverage is what the state says, and the
state says these reports begin in February 2001.

### Which of them get a page

A page exists where there is enough on file to say something useful:

- **253 counties** — at least 30
reports each.
- **1,712 state well grids** — at least
100 reports each. A grid is a 7.5-minute quadrangle, finer than a
county.
- **1,002 licensed firms** — at least
50 reports each.

Everything else is still in the search box: every one of the
708,722 reports can be opened by its tracking number.

### ⚠️ And what we changed about the file

One thing, and it is the reason the firm pages exist at all. The state
stores the firm name as each form was typed: **9,323**
distinct spellings. Reconciled, they are **4,784**
firms. One firm alone had been filed under 43 spellings.

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Página: https://texas-water-wells.pages.dev/coverage/
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