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Vaughn: well depth, groundwater and water rights

What the public record says about water in Vaughn: 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 198 public records from MBMG GWIC, Montana DNRC, Montana DEQ, EPA UST Finder, US Census (place boundary)

Wells on record

103

28.8 per sq mi

Median well depth

120 ft

half of wells 85–130 ft

Median static water level

16 ft

86 measurements

Median tested yield

35 gpm

84 pump tests

Well depth

How deep are wells in Vaughn?

Of 101 wells with a recorded total depth, the median is 120 feet. Half were drilled between 85 and 130 feet; one in ten went deeper than 150 feet and one in ten found water shallower than 17 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
16%
50–100 ft
16%
100–200 ft
67%
200–300 ft
1%
300–500 ft
0%
500 ft and deeper
0%

Static water level

16 ft

median depth to water at rest · half between 9 and 34 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

35 gpm

median tested yield · half between 25 and 50 gpm

1% of tested wells produced under 5 gallons per minute and 89% 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 Vaughn

11 wells have been completed here since 2016, 1 of them in the last twelve months. The newest log on file was completed February 3, 2026. Records run back to 1900.

What the wells are for

  • Domestic69
  • Stockwater18
  • Monitoring13
  • Irrigation9
  • Public Water Supply2

How they were drilled

  • Rotary35
  • Cable19
  • Churn11
  • Hsa5

Drillers filing well logs in Vaughn

  • Aquasource Drilling Llc4 since 2016 · 2026
  • Boland Drilling1 since 2016 · 2017
  • Aquasource Inc Llc1 since 2016 · 2021
  • Byrne27 all-time · 1999
  • Poverty Drilling14 all-time · 2005
  • Pat Byrne Drilling Inc4 all-time · 2006

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 Vaughn

Montana DNRC lists 89 water rights with a point of diversion inside this area: 70 groundwater and 19 surface water, 85 of them active. The median priority date is 1981, and the oldest claim dates to 1900.

Types of right

  • Ground Water Certificate46
  • Statement Of Claim31
  • Provisional Permit9
  • Exempt Notice2
  • Water Reservation1

Purposes

  • Domestic21
  • Irrigation12
  • Stock11
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden9
  • Domestic; Lawn And Garden; Stock6

DNRC basins

  • 41K89

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 Vaughn 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.

  • Glacial Great Falls Lake Sediments56 wells · 65% · median 125 ft
  • Sand And Gravel (pleistocene)12 wells · 14% · median 120 ft
  • Alluvium (quaternary)10 wells · 12% · median 125 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 Vaughn

Petroleum releases

3

1 open · 2 resolved

Superfund program sites

0

none on the National Priorities List

Registered tank facilities

3

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 2002. A property report screens the sites within a quarter, half and one mile of a specific parcel and links the agency records.