Montana water data · Zip Code in Fergus County
ZIP 59032: well depth, groundwater and water rights
What the public record says about water in ZIP code 59032: how deep wells go, where the water table sits, what wells produce, which water rights are on file, and which documented environmental sites are nearby. Area statistics orient you; a property report analyzes the records around one specific parcel.
Updated September 2026 · Based on 2,087 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (ZIP Code Tabulation Area)
Wells on record
340
0.6 per sq mi
Median well depth
240 ft
half of wells 95–596 ft
Median static water level
33 ft
236 measurements
Median tested yield
12 gpm
295 pump tests
Well depth
How deep are wells in ZIP 59032?
Of 328 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 240 feet. Half were drilled between 95 and 596 feet; one in ten went deeper than 1,132 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 40 feet. Depth is set by local geology and position on the landscape, both of which change over short distances, so the spread matters as much as the median.
Static water level
33 ft
median depth to water at rest · half between 15 and 96 ft
The static level is how far below ground the water stands before pumping, measured by the driller at completion. It affects pump setting and operating cost, and it moves with season and with neighbouring use.
Well yield
12 gpm
median tested yield · half between 7 and 24 gpm
13% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 35% produced 20 or more. These are short completion tests, not sustained-capacity tests; a household typically needs 3 to 5 gpm with storage.
Drilling activity
Recent well drilling in ZIP 59032
46 wells have been completed here since 2016, 1 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed November 4, 2025. Records run back to 1895.
What the wells are for
- Stockwater234
- Domestic149
- Irrigation20
- Monitoring11
- Public Water Supply6
How they were drilled
- Rotary187
- Forward Rotary26
- Unknown16
- Cable10
Drillers filing well logs in ZIP 59032
- Central Drilling Inc22 since 2016 · 2025
- Montana Salinity Control Association8 since 2016 · 2021
- Singley Drilling5 since 2016 · 2020
- Vidic Drilling Inc4 since 2016 · 2021
- Gordon Drilling Inc3 since 2016 · 2018
- Munson Drilling Co.18 all-time · 1980
- Wellman & Munson Drilling15 all-time · 1964
- Jennings Drilling Co14 all-time · 2010
Ranked by well logs filed with GWIC, public record only. Not an endorsement, a referral or a paid listing; we have no business relationship with these companies. Verify licensing with the Montana Board of Water Well Contractors before hiring.
Water rights
Water rights on file in ZIP 59032
Montana DNRC lists 1,737 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 474 groundwater and 1,263 surface water, 1,538 of them active. The median priority date is 1947, and the oldest claim dates to 1878.
Types of right
- Statement Of Claim1,382
- Ground Water Certificate247
- Provisional Permit54
- Stockwater Permit40
- Exempt Notice7
Purposes
- Stock1,202
- Irrigation272
- Wildlife59
- Domestic57
- Multiple Domestic31
DNRC basins
- 40B1,728
- 40C9
Area totals describe the neighbourhood, not any one parcel. Montana publishes no authoritative link between a parcel and a water right; whether a right attaches to a specific property is a property-level question that our reports answer with the DNRC abstract linked.
Aquifers and geology
What wells in ZIP 59032 draw from
Drillers record the aquifer a well is completed in. The units below account for the wells here that carry an aquifer assignment; the median depth beside each is for wells completed in that unit.
- Third Cat Creek Sandstone (basal Kootenai Fm)30 wells · 43% · median 1,102 ft
- Kootenai Formation27 wells · 39% · median 450 ft
- Second Cat Creek Sandstone (of Kootenai Fm)5 wells · 7% · median 958 ft
Aquifer assignments are the driller's, recorded at completion, and many older logs carry none. Absence of an assignment is not evidence about the geology.
Environmental groundwater screening
Documented environmental sites in ZIP 59032
Petroleum releases
2
0 open · 2 resolved
Superfund program sites
0
none on the National Priorities List
Registered tank facilities
8
underground storage tanks, current and historical
A documented release or site in the area is not evidence that any particular well is affected. Whether a release reaches a well depends on groundwater flow direction, geology, well depth and construction, the extent of the plume and the cleanup performed. The most recent release reported here dates to 1999. A property report screens the sites within a quarter, half and one mile of a specific parcel and links the agency records.