Montana water data · Community in Lake County
Lindisfarne: well depth, groundwater and water rights
What the public record says about water in Lindisfarne: 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 635 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, US Census (place boundary)
Wells on record
205
79.5 per sq mi
Median well depth
275 ft
half of wells 184–404 ft
Median static water level
50 ft
160 measurements
Median tested yield
20 gpm
204 pump tests
Well depth
How deep are wells in Lindisfarne?
Of 199 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 275 feet. Half were drilled between 184 and 404 feet; one in ten went deeper than 540 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 140 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
50 ft
median depth to water at rest · half between 26 and 86 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 11 and 30 gpm
6% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 51% 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 Lindisfarne
40 wells have been completed here since 2016, 2 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed July 23, 2026. Records run back to 1948.
What the wells are for
- Domestic190
- Irrigation35
- Fire Protection5
- Stockwater5
- Public Water Supply1
How they were drilled
- Rotary117
- Forward Rotary39
- Air Rotary20
- Churn10
Drillers filing well logs in Lindisfarne
- Ace Drilling12 since 2016 · 2025
- Allwest Drilling Inc9 since 2016 · 2022
- Oh Well Drilling And Pump9 since 2016 · 2024
- Oh Well Drilling & Pump4 since 2016 · 2017
- Coldwater Drilling And Pumps3 since 2016 · 2019
- Castlio Drilling24 all-time · 1999
- Liberty Drilling & Pump Co15 all-time · 1997
- Main Harbor Pumps & Well Drilling12 all-time · 2012
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 Lindisfarne
Montana DNRC lists 430 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 251 groundwater and 179 surface water, 316 of them active. The median priority date is 1980, and the oldest claim dates to 1863.
Types of right
- Statement Of Claim188
- Registration Certificate99
- Ground Water Certificate98
- Domestic Allowance24
- Provisional Permit13
Purposes
- Domestic215
- Multiple Domestic66
- Domestic; Lawn And Garden53
- Lawn And Garden; Domestic32
- Lawn And Garden15
DNRC basins
- 76LJ430
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 Lindisfarne 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.
- Ravalli Group69 wells · 64% · median 203 ft
- Belt Supergroup23 wells · 21% · median 263 ft
- Middle Belt Carbonate15 wells · 14% · median 227 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.