# How deep are water wells in Texas? — texas-water-wells

> 708,722 Texas well reports submitted since 2001, with the depth reached, the depth water was struck and what the driller logged on the way down. Median depth 180 ft.

## How deep are water wells in Texas?

Type a county, a drilling firm, or a well report tracking number. **708,722** reports submitted since 2001, with **5,345,462** logged rock layers underneath them.

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### What this answers

Before anyone drills, the question is the same: *how far down is the
water here, what will I go through to reach it, and what will it
yield?*

Texas has the answer, 708,722 times over. A licensed driller must file a
well report with the state, and those reports carry the depth reached, the
level water was struck at, the tested yield, and a layer-by-layer log of the
rock. What the state does not do is turn them into an answer for a place: its
tool is a map you click, with no page for any county, any grid or any firm.
That is what this site is.

A licensed driller must file a well report with the department **and the owner within 60 days** of finishing the well (Texas Occupations Code, chapter 1901.251). A well found abandoned must be plugged and a State of Texas Plugging Report filed within 30 days (16 TAC §76.104). The duty to plug falls on the landowner.

### ⚠️ What is on this site, and what is not

The state file behind this site names the owner of every well, their postal address, the address of the well, its exact coordinates and even the distance from their septic tank. **None of it is on this site.** Those columns are not filtered out at display time — they are never read into our database at all, which is the only guarantee worth making. What you see is the ground and the licensed firms that drilled it.

### The rock, not just the depth

**5,345,462** layers logged across
**707,856** wells — 7.6
per well on average. Every county page and every grid page shows what
drillers actually hit, depth band by depth band, in their own words.

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.

### What the wells are for

*Every purpose a Texas well report can declare, by volume.*

| Purpose | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Domestic | 289,961 | 40.9% |
| Monitor | 125,864 | 17.8% |
| Environmental Soil Boring | 86,834 | 12.3% |
| Irrigation | 74,917 | 10.6% |
| Stock | 35,847 | 5.1% |
| Rig Supply | 35,098 | 5.0% |
| Test Well | 23,800 | 3.4% |
| Industrial | 9,603 | 1.4% |
| Public Supply | 6,349 | 0.9% |
| Injection | 5,930 | 0.8% |

### Where to start

[The 253 counties](/county.md) ·
[1,712 state well grids](/area.md) ·
[1,002 licensed firms](/driller.md) ·
[how to read a depth](/how-deep.md).

### Drilling a well in Texas?

Depth is only half the quote — the rock, the casing and the pump decide the rest. Tell us where and we pass the request to licensed Texas drillers.

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