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Reed Point: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in Reed Point: 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 156 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (place boundary)

Wells on record

88

158.4 per sq mi

Median well depth

65 ft

half of wells 33–90 ft

Median static water level

16 ft

69 measurements

Median tested yield

25 gpm

72 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in Reed Point?

Of 75 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 65 feet. Half were drilled between 33 and 90 feet; one in ten went deeper than 156 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
37%
50–100 ft
39%
100–200 ft
21%
200–300 ft
3%
300–500 ft
0%
500 ft and deeper
0%

Static water level

16 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 10 and 30 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 20 and 40 gpm

0% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 79% 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 Reed Point

6 wells have been completed here since 2016. The newest log on file was completed May 26, 2023. Records run back to 1914.

What the wells are for

  • Domestic60
  • Monitoring14
  • Irrigation11
  • Stockwater8
  • Public Water Supply5

How they were drilled

  • Rotary55
  • Cable7
  • Hollowstem Auger4
  • Bored4

Drillers filing well logs in Reed Point

  • Aaqua Drilling Inc2 since 2016 · 2020
  • Douglas Drilling2 since 2016 · 2017
  • Birchell Drilling1 since 2016 · 2020
  • B & H17 all-time · 2000
  • A-1 Drilling/billings Drilling7 all-time · 2002
  • American Drilling & Supply7 all-time · 2008
  • Huntingdon Engineering And Environmental, Inc6 all-time · 1994
  • Chen-northern3 all-time · 1991

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 Reed Point

Montana DNRC lists 60 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 60 groundwater and 0 surface water, 58 of them active. The median priority date is 1996, and the oldest claim dates to 1910.

Types of right

  • Ground Water Certificate48
  • Statement Of Claim11
  • Exempt Notice1

Purposes

  • Domestic39
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden7
  • Stock5
  • Lawn And Garden3
  • Domestic; Irrigation; Lawn And Garden; Stock1

DNRC basins

  • 43QJ60

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 Reed Point 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.

  • Lance-hell Creek Undifferentiated32 wells · 42% · median 70 ft
  • Alluvium (quaternary)23 wells · 30% · median 28 ft
  • Hell Creek Formation17 wells · 22% · median 122 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 Reed Point

Petroleum releases

3

0 open · 3 resolved

Superfund program sites

0

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

5

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. The most recent release reported here dates to 2005. A property report screens the sites within a quarter, half and one mile of a specific parcel and links the agency records.