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Emigrant: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in Emigrant: 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 429 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (place boundary)

Wells on record

199

18.5 per sq mi

Median well depth

179 ft

half of wells 95–280 ft

Median static water level

85 ft

171 measurements

Median tested yield

25 gpm

194 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in Emigrant?

Of 194 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 179 feet. Half were drilled between 95 and 280 feet; one in ten went deeper than 484 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 49 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
10%
50–100 ft
16%
100–200 ft
26%
200–300 ft
23%
300–500 ft
14%
500 ft and deeper
10%

Static water level

85 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 26 and 155 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

25 gpm

median tested yield · half between 12 and 35 gpm

6% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 64% 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 Emigrant

31 wells have been completed here since 2016, 3 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed August 17, 2026. Records run back to 1900.

What the wells are for

  • Domestic178
  • Irrigation10
  • Public Water Supply9
  • Stockwater4
  • Other3

How they were drilled

  • Rotary93
  • Forward Rotary65
  • Cable20
  • Dual Rotary4

Drillers filing well logs in Emigrant

  • Red Tiger Drilling12 since 2016 · 2026
  • Hayes Drilling8 since 2016 · 2025
  • Potts Drilling Inc5 since 2016 · 2026
  • Van Dyken Drilling Inc2 since 2016 · 2026
  • Bridger Drilling Inc1 since 2016 · 2020
  • Rock Creek Drilling Inc69 all-time · 2000
  • Hillman Drilling19 all-time · 2007
  • Aaqua Drilling Inc8 all-time · 2003

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 Emigrant

Montana DNRC lists 224 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 185 groundwater and 39 surface water, 201 of them active. The median priority date is 1990, and the oldest claim dates to 1878.

Types of right

  • Ground Water Certificate171
  • Statement Of Claim43
  • Provisional Permit8
  • Exempt Notice1
  • Water Reservation1

Purposes

  • Domestic83
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden24
  • Irrigation16
  • Stock14
  • Fishery7

DNRC basins

  • 43B223
  • 43A1

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 Emigrant 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.

  • Glacial Drift66 wells · 37% · median 138 ft
  • Absaroka Volcanics (eocene)64 wells · 36% · median 320 ft
  • Alluvium (holocene)22 wells · 12% · median 44 ft
  • Alluvium (quaternary)21 wells · 12% · median 68 ft
  • Sediments (tertiary)7 wells · 4% · median 197 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 Emigrant

Petroleum releases

1

0 open · 1 resolved

Superfund program sites

0

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

5

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 1997. A property report screens the sites within a quarter, half and one mile of a specific parcel and links the agency records.