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Jardine: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in Jardine: 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 187 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, EPA SEMS, US Census (place boundary)

Wells on record

80

5.4 per sq mi

Median well depth

94 ft

half of wells 30–200 ft

Median static water level

46 ft

34 measurements

Median tested yield

15 gpm

37 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in Jardine?

Of 55 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 94 feet. Half were drilled between 30 and 200 feet; one in ten went deeper than 263 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 25 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
38%
50–100 ft
13%
100–200 ft
22%
200–300 ft
22%
300–500 ft
5%
500 ft and deeper
0%

Static water level

46 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 28 and 112 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

15 gpm

median tested yield · half between 7 and 20 gpm

14% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 43% 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 Jardine

4 wells have been completed here since 2016. The newest log on file was completed October 2, 2024. Records run back to 1963.

What the wells are for

  • Domestic41
  • Monitoring39
  • Public Water Supply1
  • Industrial1
  • Fire Protection1

How they were drilled

  • Rotary67
  • Forward Rotary2
  • Air Rotary1
  • Churn1

Drillers filing well logs in Jardine

  • Red Tiger Drilling3 since 2016 · 2021
  • Hayes Drilling43 all-time · 2009
  • Okeefe Drilling Co10 all-time · 2007
  • Hillman Drilling6 all-time · 2006
  • Van Dyken Drilling Inc5 all-time · 2010

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 Jardine

Montana DNRC lists 106 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 43 groundwater and 63 surface water, 67 of them active. The median priority date is 1963, and the oldest claim dates to 1876.

Types of right

  • Statement Of Claim70
  • Provisional Permit19
  • Ground Water Certificate10
  • Exempt Notice4
  • Water Reservation2

Purposes

  • Mining35
  • Domestic27
  • Stock12
  • Irrigation11
  • Domestic; Stock4

DNRC basins

  • 43B106

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 Jardine 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.

  • Gneiss And Schist (early Proterozoic Or Archean)20 wells · 38% · median 203 ft
  • Alluvium (holocene)15 wells · 29% · median 30 ft
  • Glacial Drift11 wells · 21% · median 100 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 Jardine

Petroleum releases

0

0 open · 0 resolved

Superfund program sites

1

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

0

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