Montana WaterReport
Check a property

Montana water data · Zip Code in Liberty County

ZIP 59522: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in ZIP code 59522: 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 1,865 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (ZIP Code Tabulation Area)

Wells on record

520

0.6 per sq mi

Median well depth

38 ft

half of wells 19–160 ft

Median static water level

40 ft

266 measurements

Median tested yield

10 gpm

229 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in ZIP 59522?

Of 485 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 38 feet. Half were drilled between 19 and 160 feet; one in ten went deeper than 300 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 15 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
54%
50–100 ft
9%
100–200 ft
17%
200–300 ft
8%
300–500 ft
6%
500 ft and deeper
4%

Static water level

40 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 11 and 140 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

10 gpm

median tested yield · half between 5 and 17 gpm

19% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 24% 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 59522

5 wells have been completed here since 2016, 2 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed April 13, 2026. Records run back to 1910.

What the wells are for

  • Monitoring213
  • Stockwater188
  • Domestic147
  • Irrigation14
  • Unused13

How they were drilled

  • Unknown61
  • Rotary41
  • Cable25
  • Hollow Stem Auger15

Drillers filing well logs in ZIP 59522

  • Aquasource Drilling Llc3 since 2016 · 2026
  • Hi-line Drilling Inc1 since 2016 · 2018
  • Boland Drilling1 since 2016 · 2025
  • Unknown61 all-time · 1963
  • Montana Salinity Control Association61 all-time · 2008
  • Hansen Environmental Drilling16 all-time · 2000
  • Sb And Rg16 all-time · 2003
  • Sb Jv13 all-time · 1998

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 59522

Montana DNRC lists 1,301 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 331 groundwater and 970 surface water, 1,144 of them active. The median priority date is 1940, and the oldest claim dates to 1880.

Types of right

  • Statement Of Claim1,130
  • Ground Water Certificate86
  • Provisional Permit51
  • Stockwater Permit25
  • Exempt Notice5

Purposes

  • Stock814
  • Irrigation286
  • Domestic67
  • Multiple Domestic36
  • Domestic; Stock15

DNRC basins

  • 41P748
  • 40G264
  • 41N178
  • 40F111

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 59522 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.

  • Eagle Sandstone22 wells · 28% · median 295 ft
  • Glacial Drift12 wells · 15% · median 59 ft
  • Virgelle Sandstone Member (of Eagle Sandstone)10 wells · 13% · median 378 ft
  • Alluvium (quaternary)9 wells · 12% · median 18 ft
  • Claggett Shale Or Formation9 wells · 12% · median 180 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 59522

Petroleum releases

16

5 open · 11 resolved

Superfund program sites

0

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

28

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 2021. A property report screens the sites within a quarter, half and one mile of a specific parcel and links the agency records.