Montana water data · Zip Code in Missoula County
ZIP 59825: well depth, groundwater and water rights
What the public record says about water in ZIP code 59825: 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 2,745 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (ZIP Code Tabulation Area)
Wells on record
1,302
3.1 per sq mi
Median well depth
60 ft
half of wells 50–80 ft
Median static water level
23 ft
1,063 measurements
Median tested yield
30 gpm
1,076 pump tests
Well depth
How deep are wells in ZIP 59825?
Of 1,198 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 60 feet. Half were drilled between 50 and 80 feet; one in ten went deeper than 124 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 38 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
23 ft
median depth to water at rest · half between 13 and 35 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
30 gpm
median tested yield · half between 15 and 50 gpm
5% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 73% 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 59825
119 wells have been completed here since 2016, 9 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed July 22, 2026. Records run back to 1887.
What the wells are for
- Domestic1,107
- Irrigation63
- Public Water Supply39
- Stockwater33
- Monitoring24
How they were drilled
- Rotary631
- Forward Rotary150
- Cable121
- Churn67
Drillers filing well logs in ZIP 59825
- Western Montana Drilling Co.29 since 2016 · 2026
- Jeromes Drilling Co23 since 2016 · 2024
- Camp Well Drilling And Pump Service15 since 2016 · 2025
- Camp Well Drilling & Pump Supply8 since 2016 · 2026
- Blackfoot Well Drilling & Pump Service Inc8 since 2016 · 2017
- Aquasource Drilling Llc8 since 2016 · 2024
- Western Water Wells5 since 2016 · 2025
- Ak Drilling Inc5 since 2016 · 2024
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 59825
Montana DNRC lists 1,420 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 984 groundwater and 436 surface water, 1,326 of them active. The median priority date is 1981, and the oldest claim dates to 1858.
Types of right
- Ground Water Certificate823
- Statement Of Claim511
- Provisional Permit43
- Exempt Notice26
- Water Reservation5
Purposes
- Domestic463
- Irrigation231
- Domestic; Lawn And Garden203
- Stock159
- Domestic; Stock40
DNRC basins
- 76G1,061
- 76E346
- 76GJ5
- 76H5
- 76M2
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 59825 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.
- Alluvium (holocene)605 wells · 59% · median 58 ft
- Sand And Gravel (pleistocene)128 wells · 12% · median 60 ft
- Belt Supergroup126 wells · 12% · median 120 ft
- Alluvium (pleistocene)87 wells · 8% · median 88 ft
- Sand And Gravel (holocene)58 wells · 6% · median 46 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 59825
Petroleum releases
10
0 open · 10 resolved
Superfund program sites
0
none on the National Priorities List
Registered tank facilities
13
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 2022. A property report screens the sites within a quarter, half and one mile of a specific parcel and links the agency records.