Montana water data · Community in Carbon County
Fox: well depth, groundwater and water rights
What the public record says about water in Fox: 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 231 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, US Census (place boundary)
Wells on record
88
29.9 per sq mi
Median well depth
35 ft
half of wells 28–40 ft
Median static water level
11 ft
84 measurements
Median tested yield
25 gpm
83 pump tests
Well depth
How deep are wells in Fox?
Of 84 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 35 feet. Half were drilled between 28 and 40 feet; one in ten went deeper than 96 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 22 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
11 ft
median depth to water at rest · half between 8 and 16 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 18 and 35 gpm
4% 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 Fox
18 wells have been completed here since 2016, 2 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed September 2, 2026. Records run back to 1890.
What the wells are for
- Domestic71
- Stockwater6
- Irrigation5
- Industrial1
- Public Water Supply1
How they were drilled
- Rotary47
- Forward Rotary10
- Cable4
- Rotary Driven2
Drillers filing well logs in Fox
- Aaqua Drilling Inc15 since 2016 · 2026
- Douglas Drilling2 since 2016 · 2021
- B & H14 all-time · 2001
- Rock Creek Drilling Inc8 all-time · 1994
- American Drilling & Supply3 all-time · 2011
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 Fox
Montana DNRC lists 143 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 78 groundwater and 65 surface water, 115 of them active. The median priority date is 1961, and the oldest claim dates to 1894.
Types of right
- Ground Water Certificate70
- Statement Of Claim68
- Provisional Permit3
- Exempt Notice1
- Water Reservation1
Purposes
- Irrigation47
- Domestic44
- Stock14
- Domestic; Lawn And Garden7
- Domestic; Stock5
DNRC basins
- 43D143
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 Fox 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 (quaternary)39 wells · 57% · median 33 ft
- Terrace Deposits (quaternary)12 wells · 17% · median 20 ft
- Fort Union Formation8 wells · 12% · median 86 ft
- Sand And Gravel (pleistocene)6 wells · 9% · median 33 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.