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Forest Hill Village: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in Forest Hill Village: 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 November 2026 · Based on 148 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, US Census (place boundary)

Wells on record

77

49.9 per sq mi

Median well depth

228 ft

half of wells 115–348 ft

Median static water level

31 ft

68 measurements

Median tested yield

29 gpm

72 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in Forest Hill Village?

Of 75 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 228 feet. Half were drilled between 115 and 348 feet; one in ten went deeper than 503 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 51 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
8%
50–100 ft
16%
100–200 ft
16%
200–300 ft
29%
300–500 ft
20%
500 ft and deeper
11%

Static water level

31 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 15 and 141 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

29 gpm

median tested yield · half between 17 and 40 gpm

1% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 72% 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 Forest Hill Village

17 wells have been completed here since 2016, 2 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed October 12, 2026. Records run back to 1910.

What the wells are for

  • Domestic65
  • Irrigation6
  • Public Water Supply4
  • Commercial4
  • Stockwater4

How they were drilled

  • Rotary38
  • Unknown7
  • Forward Rotary5
  • Cable5

Drillers filing well logs in Forest Hill Village

  • Glazier Drilling5 since 2016 · 2019
  • Allwest Drilling Inc3 since 2016 · 2021
  • Coldwater Drilling And Pumps3 since 2016 · 2022
  • Billmayer Drilling2 since 2016 · 2020
  • Oh Well Drilling And Pump2 since 2016 · 2026
  • Liberty Drilling & Pump Co10 all-time · 2003
  • Mcclarty Drilling7 all-time · 1984
  • Unknown7 all-time · 1984

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 Forest Hill Village

Montana DNRC lists 71 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 65 groundwater and 6 surface water, 63 of them active. The median priority date is 1989, and the oldest claim dates to 1890.

Types of right

  • Ground Water Certificate50
  • Statement Of Claim11
  • Exempt Notice6
  • Provisional Permit3
  • Reserved Claim1

Purposes

  • Domestic21
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden10
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden; Stock5
  • Irrigation4
  • Industrial4

DNRC basins

  • 76LJ71

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 Forest Hill Village 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.

  • Middle Belt Carbonate22 wells · 51% · median 237 ft
  • Alluvium (holocene)10 wells · 23% · median 28 ft
  • Belt Supergroup6 wells · 14% · median 272 ft
  • Alluvium (pleistocene)5 wells · 12% · median 191 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.