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Water wells in Wilson County, Texas.

The median water well in Wilson County, Texas is 370 feet deep, based on 2,387 driller's reports filed with the Texas Water Development Board since 2001. Half the wells on record are between 240 and 500 feet, and the deepest is 3,566 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 Wilson County since 2001 is meant to be filed with the state by the driller. These are those reports, counted.

  • Median

    370 ft

    The middle of 2,387 water wells with a reported borehole depth. Half were drilled shallower, half deeper.

  • Typical range

    240–500 ft

    The spread is narrow. Eighty per cent of the wells on record finish between 240 and 500 ft, so the county's ground is comparatively consistent — though consistency across a county is not a promise about one parcel.

  • Deepest on record

    3,566 ft

    One well. A single deep hole says what the county can demand, not what it usually does.

  • Reports on file

    2,387

    Water-supply wells — domestic, irrigation, stock, public supply — carrying a borehole depth. The county has 2,572 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

    3 of 2,346 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: 350 ft in 2001–2009, 380 ft in 2020 onward, a change of 30 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
631 wells, median 350 ft.
2010–2019
990 wells, median 375 ft.
2020 onward
765 wells, median 380 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 2,387 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 Wilson County wells.

How deep are water wells in Wilson County, Texas?
The median water well in Wilson County, Texas is 370 feet deep, based on 2,387 driller's reports filed with the Texas Water Development Board since 2001. Half the wells on record are between 240 and 500 feet, and the deepest is 3,566 feet. These are borehole depths, not depth to water.
How much does it cost to drill a well in Wilson 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 370 ft, with eighty per cent of wells between 240 and 500 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 Wilson 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 Wilson County deeper than the rest of Texas?
Deeper. The county's median is 370 ft against a middle-county median of about 275 ft across the 176 Texas counties with enough reports to compare. A deeper county means a longer hole, more casing and a bigger pump.
Are wells in Wilson County getting deeper?
The filed record says deeper: a median of 350 ft in 2001–2009 against 380 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 Wilson County drilled for?
Mostly domestic — 84% of the water-supply reports on file. The rest are split between the other uses the state records: irrigation (108), stock (251), public supply (24).

Counties next door.

The ground does not stop at a county line, and neither does the record worth reading.

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    What the public record holds about groundwater under a property, and the questions to settle before closing.

  • For drillers

    The same records, read for the rig: what the neighbours hit and how far the hole is likely to go.

  • Every Texas county

    Well counts and median depths for all 176 counties with enough reports to compare.

Check an address in Wilson 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.

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