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Maxville: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in Maxville: 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 232 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, EPA UST Finder, US Census (place boundary)

Wells on record

107

15.3 per sq mi

Median well depth

61 ft

half of wells 43–97 ft

Median static water level

30 ft

104 measurements

Median tested yield

20 gpm

100 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in Maxville?

Of 104 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 61 feet. Half were drilled between 43 and 97 feet; one in ten went deeper than 187 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 35 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
30%
50–100 ft
47%
100–200 ft
14%
200–300 ft
5%
300–500 ft
3%
500 ft and deeper
1%

Static water level

30 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 18 and 40 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 12 and 25 gpm

4% 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 Maxville

19 wells have been completed here since 2016, 2 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed July 14, 2026. Records run back to 1898.

What the wells are for

  • Domestic104
  • Stockwater4
  • Commercial1

How they were drilled

  • Rotary37
  • Dual Rotary20
  • Air Rotary18
  • Forward Rotary5

Drillers filing well logs in Maxville

  • Okeefe Drilling Co5 since 2016 · 2026
  • Ak Drilling Inc4 since 2016 · 2025
  • Ak Drilling, Inc.4 since 2016 · 2022
  • Ak Drilling Inc.2 since 2016 · 2025
  • Lindsay Drilling Co Inc1 since 2016 · 2018
  • Jeromes Drilling Co1 since 2016 · 2024
  • Parsons Drilling10 all-time · 2013
  • Brazill Drilling5 all-time · 1997

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 Maxville

Montana DNRC lists 123 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 75 groundwater and 48 surface water, 103 of them active. The median priority date is 1976, and the oldest claim dates to 1869.

Types of right

  • Ground Water Certificate64
  • Statement Of Claim54
  • Exempt Notice3
  • Provisional Permit1
  • 62-73 Ground Water Record1

Purposes

  • Domestic34
  • Irrigation27
  • Stock26
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden14
  • Domestic; Stock4

DNRC basins

  • 76GJ123

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 Maxville 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.

  • Sand And Gravel (pleistocene)26 wells · 37% · median 59 ft
  • Sand And Gravel (holocene)18 wells · 25% · median 40 ft
  • Quaternary Undifferentiated9 wells · 13% · median 35 ft
  • Madison Group Or Limestone5 wells · 7% · median 220 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 Maxville

Petroleum releases

0

0 open · 0 resolved

Superfund program sites

0

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

2

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.