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ZIP 59868: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in ZIP code 59868: 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 2,995 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (ZIP Code Tabulation Area)

Wells on record

1,333

5.2 per sq mi

Median well depth

140 ft

half of wells 90–220 ft

Median static water level

38 ft

1,127 measurements

Median tested yield

12 gpm

1,225 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in ZIP 59868?

Of 1,295 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 140 feet. Half were drilled between 90 and 220 feet; one in ten went deeper than 313 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 60 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
6%
50–100 ft
23%
100–200 ft
38%
200–300 ft
18%
300–500 ft
13%
500 ft and deeper
1%

Static water level

38 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 20 and 63 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 20 gpm

12% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 34% 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 59868

218 wells have been completed here since 2016, 9 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed July 20, 2026. Records run back to 1916.

What the wells are for

  • Domestic1,217
  • Monitoring23
  • Public Water Supply11
  • Irrigation10
  • Other8

How they were drilled

  • Rotary971
  • Cable95
  • Forward Rotary95
  • Air Rotary11

Drillers filing well logs in ZIP 59868

  • Jeromes Drilling Co115 since 2016 · 2025
  • Western Montana Drilling Co.40 since 2016 · 2026
  • Western Montana Drilling Company20 since 2016 · 2024
  • Camp Well Drilling And Pump Service15 since 2016 · 2025
  • Camp Well Drilling & Pump Supply7 since 2016 · 2026
  • Heimark Drilling5 since 2016 · 2025
  • Western Drilling Co.4 since 2016 · 2019
  • Okeefe Drilling Co3 since 2016 · 2025

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 59868

Montana DNRC lists 1,630 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 1,064 groundwater and 566 surface water, 1,546 of them active. The median priority date is 1987, and the oldest claim dates to 1855.

Types of right

  • Ground Water Certificate948
  • Statement Of Claim567
  • Provisional Permit86
  • Exempt Notice10
  • Water Reservation10

Purposes

  • Domestic859
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden215
  • Multiple Domestic126
  • Stock122
  • Irrigation80

DNRC basins

  • 76F1,576
  • 76K43
  • 76L6
  • 76M3
  • 76G1

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 59868 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.

  • Belt Supergroup291 wells · 32% · median 200 ft
  • Glacial Outwash (pleistocene)245 wells · 27% · median 80 ft
  • Alluvium (pleistocene)170 wells · 19% · median 121 ft
  • Sediments (tertiary)102 wells · 11% · median 188 ft
  • Alluvium (holocene)42 wells · 5% · median 18 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 59868

Petroleum releases

10

1 open · 9 resolved

Superfund program sites

0

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

22

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.