Water wells in Kimble County, Texas.
The median water well in Kimble County, Texas is 240 feet deep, based on 1,489 driller's reports filed with the Texas Water Development Board since 2001. Half the wells on record are between 75 and 400 feet, and the deepest is 1,389 feet. These are borehole depths, not depth to water.
All Texas counties · Source: Texas Water Development Board, Submitted Drillers Reports (TDLR/TWDB well report index). Read 2026-09-07.
What the filed reports say.
Every water well drilled in Kimble County since 2001 is meant to be filed with the state by the driller. These are those reports, counted.
Median
240 ft
The middle of 1,489 water wells with a reported borehole depth. Half were drilled shallower, half deeper.
Typical range
75–400 ft
The spread is wide. Eighty per cent of the wells on record finish between 75 and 400 ft, a range of 325 ft, which means the county average is a weak guide to any single property. The wells nearest a parcel are worth more than the county's middle.
Deepest on record
1,389 ft
One well. A single deep hole says what the county can demand, not what it usually does.
Reports on file
1,489
Water-supply wells — domestic, irrigation, stock, public supply — carrying a borehole depth. The county has 1,603 filed reports in total; the rest are monitoring wells, soil borings, test holes and injection wells, which are not water wells and are not counted here.
Water quality
0.1% flagged
1 of 1,463 reports that answered the question flagged injurious water quality. It is the driller's own judgement at the time of drilling, not a lab result, and it is not a map of where bad water is.
How the record moved.
The middle of the record has moved deeper: 232 ft in 2001–2009, 260 ft in 2020 onward, a change of 28 ft. That is what the filed reports show for the county as a whole; it is not a forecast for any one property, and where a well is drilled matters more than when.
- 2001–2009
- 532 wells, median 232 ft.
- 2010–2019
- 527 wells, median 250 ft.
- 2020 onward
- 424 wells, median 260 ft.
What this page cannot tell you.
The state's report index carries some things and not others, and the difference decides what any honest page built on it may say.
Not the depth to water.
Every depth here is how far the hole went, which is deeper — often much deeper — than the level water stands at. The report index does not carry a water level at all; those readings live in the state's groundwater database and its nightly archive, and reach a report from there.
Not a yield.
Where a driller tested a well and wrote down what it made, that is on record elsewhere. It is not in this index, so no number on this page is a gallons-per-minute figure and none should be read as one.
Not a prediction for your parcel.
A county median is a description of 1,489 holes spread across the whole county. The wells that matter for one property are the nearest ones in the most similar ground, which is a different question and the one the check below answers.
Not every well.
Wells drilled before the reporting era, wells never filed, and wells filed with the wrong location are all missing or misplaced. The index is what was submitted, not a census of what exists.
Questions about Kimble County wells.
- How deep are water wells in Kimble County, Texas?
- The median water well in Kimble County, Texas is 240 feet deep, based on 1,489 driller's reports filed with the Texas Water Development Board since 2001. Half the wells on record are between 75 and 400 feet, and the deepest is 1,389 feet. These are borehole depths, not depth to water.
- How much does it cost to drill a well in Kimble County?
- Nobody can quote a Texas well from public records, because the record holds depth and not price. What the record does fix is the part of the price that depends on depth: at a median of 240 ft, with eighty per cent of wells between 75 and 400 ft, a quote built on a much shallower hole than the neighbours drilled is a quote to ask about. Drillers price per foot, plus casing, plus the pump.
- Is there a well on a property in Kimble County?
- The filed reports show wells near an address, not on it — a Texas driller's report often carries the nearest road rather than a surveyed point, so a well can be filed under a neighbour's address or not filed at all. The record raises the question and the seller answers it. A free water check on Texas Water Report draws the parcel and lists the wells around it with their distances, which is the version of this question a record can answer.
- Are wells in Kimble County getting deeper?
- The filed record says deeper: a median of 232 ft in 2001–2009 against 260 ft in 2020 onward. Completion depth follows where people drill as much as it follows the water table, so this is a description of the reports, not of the aquifer.
- What are wells in Kimble County drilled for?
- Mostly domestic — 72% of the water-supply reports on file. The rest are split between the other uses the state records: irrigation (15), stock (395), public supply (4).
Counties next door.
The ground does not stop at a county line, and neither does the record worth reading.
- Menard County — 708 wells, median 230 ft
- Mason County — 1,897 wells, median 163 ft
- Kerr County — 2,483 wells, median 500 ft
- Edwards County — 1,271 wells, median 400 ft
- Real County — 695 wells, median 360 ft
- Sutton County — 660 wells, median 360 ft
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For drillers
The same records, read for the rig: what the neighbours hit and how far the hole is likely to go.
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Check an address in Kimble County.
The county median is the middle of the whole county. A check draws the parcel, finds the wells actually around it, and gives the depth band those wells support — free, without an account.