Montana water data · Zip Code in Powell County
ZIP 59713: well depth, groundwater and water rights
What the public record says about water in ZIP code 59713: 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 1,171 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (ZIP Code Tabulation Area)
Wells on record
220
0.9 per sq mi
Median well depth
66 ft
half of wells 40–120 ft
Median static water level
20 ft
195 measurements
Median tested yield
15 gpm
194 pump tests
Well depth
How deep are wells in ZIP 59713?
Of 212 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 66 feet. Half were drilled between 40 and 120 feet; one in ten went deeper than 210 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 25 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
20 ft
median depth to water at rest · half between 10 and 36 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
15 gpm
median tested yield · half between 10 and 30 gpm
5% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 42% 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 59713
27 wells have been completed here since 2016, 5 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed April 20, 2026. Records run back to 1885.
What the wells are for
- Domestic169
- Stockwater41
- Irrigation13
- Public Water Supply7
- Monitoring2
How they were drilled
- Rotary61
- Cable36
- Air Rotary19
- Churn10
Drillers filing well logs in ZIP 59713
- A-10 Drilling7 since 2016 · 2026
- H & L Drilling Inc5 since 2016 · 2025
- Aaaa Water Well Drilling Inc4 since 2016 · 2025
- Western Water Wells4 since 2016 · 2025
- Mt Poverty Water Well Drilling2 since 2016 · 2021
- Lindsay Drilling Co Inc1 since 2016 · 2019
- Okeefe Drilling Co1 since 2016 · 2016
- Beck Drilling & Pump1 since 2016 · 2018
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 59713
Montana DNRC lists 946 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 276 groundwater and 670 surface water, 878 of them active. The median priority date is 1910, and the oldest claim dates to 1858.
Types of right
- Statement Of Claim797
- Ground Water Certificate116
- Exempt Notice15
- Provisional Permit10
- Water Reservation8
Purposes
- Stock419
- Irrigation307
- Domestic84
- Mining35
- Domestic; Lawn And Garden25
DNRC basins
- 76G707
- 76F239
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 59713 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.
- Sediments (tertiary)65 wells · 40% · median 77 ft
- Quaternary Undifferentiated22 wells · 14% · median 24 ft
- Volcanics (tertiary)21 wells · 13% · median 180 ft
- Sand And Gravel (holocene)15 wells · 9% · median 35 ft
- Sand And Gravel (pleistocene)12 wells · 7% · median 52 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 59713
Petroleum releases
2
0 open · 2 resolved
Superfund program sites
0
none on the National Priorities List
Registered tank facilities
3
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 2005. A property report screens the sites within a quarter, half and one mile of a specific parcel and links the agency records.