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ZIP 59913: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in ZIP code 59913: 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 575 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (ZIP Code Tabulation Area)

Wells on record

285

5.5 per sq mi

Median well depth

79 ft

half of wells 50–140 ft

Median static water level

33 ft

246 measurements

Median tested yield

20 gpm

243 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in ZIP 59913?

Of 265 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 79 feet. Half were drilled between 50 and 140 feet; one in ten went deeper than 203 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.

under 50 ft
22%
50–100 ft
36%
100–200 ft
30%
200–300 ft
8%
300–500 ft
2%
500 ft and deeper
2%

Static water level

33 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 20 and 70 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

20 gpm

median tested yield · half between 10 and 30 gpm

8% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 53% 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 59913

29 wells have been completed here since 2016, 2 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed May 21, 2026. Records run back to 1886.

What the wells are for

  • Domestic243
  • Public Water Supply14
  • Unused13
  • Stockwater6
  • Commercial4

How they were drilled

  • Rotary128
  • Forward Rotary57
  • Cable46
  • Cable Tool15

Drillers filing well logs in ZIP 59913

  • Chambers Drilling Company7 since 2016 · 2026
  • Billmayer Drilling6 since 2016 · 2025
  • Luce Drilling5 since 2016 · 2019
  • Glazier Drilling2 since 2016 · 2025
  • Sudan Drilling1 since 2016 · 2016
  • Weber27 all-time · 1997
  • Erickson Drilling & Pump Co12 all-time · 2012
  • Wes9 all-time · 2001

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 59913

Montana DNRC lists 286 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 254 groundwater and 32 surface water, 275 of them active. The median priority date is 1987, and the oldest claim dates to 1886.

Types of right

  • Ground Water Certificate216
  • Statement Of Claim58
  • Exempt Notice6
  • Provisional Permit5
  • Compact1

Purposes

  • Domestic123
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden34
  • Domestic; Stock16
  • Multiple Domestic16
  • Stock13

DNRC basins

  • 76LJ285
  • 76I1

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 59913 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 (pleistocene)114 wells · 62% · median 72 ft
  • Glacial Outwash (pleistocene)21 wells · 11% · median 42 ft
  • Glacial Till18 wells · 10% · median 90 ft
  • Alluvium (holocene)13 wells · 7% · median 40 ft
  • Kishenehn Formation9 wells · 5% · median 158 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 59913

Petroleum releases

2

0 open · 2 resolved

Superfund program sites

0

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

2

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.