Montana water data · Community in Missoula County
Piltzville: well depth, groundwater and water rights
What the public record says about water in Piltzville: 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 243 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, US Census (place boundary)
Wells on record
139
185.9 per sq mi
Median well depth
62 ft
half of wells 57–80 ft
Median static water level
30 ft
97 measurements
Median tested yield
40 gpm
94 pump tests
Well depth
How deep are wells in Piltzville?
Of 123 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 62 feet. Half were drilled between 57 and 80 feet; one in ten went deeper than 88 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 46 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
30 ft
median depth to water at rest · half between 18 and 38 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
40 gpm
median tested yield · half between 26 and 75 gpm
0% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 86% 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 Piltzville
2 wells have been completed here since 2016. The newest log on file was completed August 15, 2024. Records run back to 1895.
What the wells are for
- Domestic125
- Irrigation12
- Stockwater4
- Public Water Supply3
- Fire Protection2
How they were drilled
- Rotary35
- Churn22
- Cable20
- Forward Rotary5
Drillers filing well logs in Piltzville
- Camp Well Drilling32 all-time · 2006
- Jeromes Drilling Co14 all-time · 2008
- Blackfoot Well Drilling & Pump Service Inc11 all-time · 2014
- Ckc7 all-time · 1987
- Farrell6 all-time · 1973
- Erickson Drilling & Pump Co3 all-time · 1973
- Liberty Drilling & Pump Co3 all-time · 1966
- Mowbray3 all-time · 1950
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 Piltzville
Montana DNRC lists 104 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 101 groundwater and 3 surface water, 93 of them active. The median priority date is 1981, and the oldest claim dates to 1868.
Types of right
- Ground Water Certificate65
- Statement Of Claim26
- Exempt Notice12
- Provisional Permit1
Purposes
- Domestic46
- Domestic; Lawn And Garden32
- Lawn And Garden; Domestic6
- Irrigation5
- Domestic; Irrigation2
DNRC basins
- 76G101
- 76M2
- 76F1
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 Piltzville 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 (holocene)61 wells · 53% · median 59 ft
- Alluvium (pleistocene)51 wells · 44% · median 70 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.