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ZIP 59244: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in ZIP code 59244: 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 573 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, US Census (ZIP Code Tabulation Area)

Wells on record

206

0.9 per sq mi

Median well depth

75 ft

half of wells 54–110 ft

Median static water level

31 ft

165 measurements

Median tested yield

12 gpm

163 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in ZIP 59244?

Of 190 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 75 feet. Half were drilled between 54 and 110 feet; one in ten went deeper than 140 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 28 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.

under 50 ft
22%
50–100 ft
47%
100–200 ft
29%
200–300 ft
1%
300–500 ft
0%
500 ft and deeper
1%

Static water level

31 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 18 and 50 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 10 and 40 gpm

5% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 33% 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 59244

12 wells have been completed here since 2016, 1 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed October 18, 2025. Records run back to 1912.

What the wells are for

  • Stockwater124
  • Domestic85
  • Irrigation32
  • Test Well13
  • Monitoring2

How they were drilled

  • Rotary48
  • Forward Rotary14
  • Reverse Rotary12
  • Cable11

Drillers filing well logs in ZIP 59244

  • Western Water Wells4 since 2016 · 2018
  • Hansen Environmental Drilling2 since 2016 · 2025
  • Agri Industries Inc1 since 2016 · 2017
  • Petrie Pump & Drilling1 since 2016 · 2018
  • Red Tiger Drilling15 all-time · 1982
  • Jennings Drilling Co6 all-time · 1977
  • Johnson Water Well Service6 all-time · 1988
  • Palm's Drilling5 all-time · 1962

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 59244

Montana DNRC lists 367 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 203 groundwater and 164 surface water, 307 of them active. The median priority date is 1948, and the oldest claim dates to 1883.

Types of right

  • Statement Of Claim244
  • Provisional Permit58
  • Ground Water Certificate38
  • Stockwater Permit10
  • Temporary Permit10

Purposes

  • Stock207
  • Irrigation69
  • Domestic49
  • Unknown19
  • Domestic; Stock4

DNRC basins

  • 40O359
  • 40Q5
  • 40S3

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 59244 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.

  • Flaxville Gravels (pliocene-miocene)45 wells · 39% · median 61 ft
  • Fox Hills-hell Creek Aquifer39 wells · 34% · median 86 ft
  • Hell Creek Formation7 wells · 6% · median 90 ft
  • Sand And Gravel (pleistocene)7 wells · 6% · median 80 ft
  • Fort Union Formation6 wells · 5% · median 112 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.