Collingsworth County Records Must Be Sorted by Purpose

Collingsworth County has 1,238 submitted driller records, but the largest groups were not filed for household supply. Stock wells account for 377 rows, irrigation for 363, and test wells for 205. The file contains 193 domestic entries, of which 188 report a positive total depth. A countywide average would give agricultural, testing, and monitoring work too much influence over a home or rural building decision.

The mix fits a working landscape around Wellington, Quail, Samnorwood, and Dodson. It is useful evidence of local drilling activity, yet purpose still matters. An irrigation completion can be designed around a demand and power plan unlike a household system. A test or monitor well may have been installed to answer an investigation question rather than supply a faucet.

Start with the Texas water well records lookup while screening a property. When one tract becomes a serious purchase, construction, or replacement candidate, use a Pre-Drill Intelligence Report to narrow the comparison set to nearby records with relevant coordinates, uses, and source documents. TurnKey Wells organizes public records; it does not drill wells or guarantee field results.

What 188 Domestic Depth Logs Show

The domestic subset has a median total depth of 130 feet. The middle half of the positive-depth filings runs from 99 to 160 feet, and 90 percent are at or below 200 feet. The reported range is 30 to 425 feet, with an average of 134.4 feet.

That distribution supplies a research baseline, not a forecast. The 30-foot low end should not become a best-case bid, and 425 feet is not a county planning ceiling. Location, ground elevation, intended demand, record age, construction details, and the conditions encountered during drilling all affect whether a record belongs beside a particular tract.

Five domestic rows do not carry a positive total-depth value. They remain part of the domestic count but not the depth calculation. That distinction is worth preserving: missing values should not silently become zeros, and a clean-looking statistic should never outrank the quality of its source records.

• Total Collingsworth County SDR rows: 1,238
• Total domestic rows: 193
• Usable domestic total-depth logs: 188
• Median domestic total depth: 130 ft
• Domestic total-depth middle band: 99 to 160 ft
• Domestic 90th-percentile marker: 200 ft
• Recorded domestic total-depth range: 30 to 425 ft
• Average domestic total depth: 134.4 ft

Pump-Depth Records Are a Smaller Historical Subset

Fifty-nine domestic records include a positive pump depth. Their median is 105 feet, and the middle half runs from 85 to 130 feet. Ninety percent are at or below 160 feet, while the reported settings range from 32 to 225 feet. The sample average is 110.1 feet.

These figures describe old filings, not where a pump should be placed in a new or existing well. Total depth tells how far a completed hole extends. Pump setting is an equipment decision informed by water level, anticipated drawdown, household or livestock demand, pump characteristics, and the contractor’s evaluation of the completed well.

Ask a contractor to separate drilling footage from pump, pressure, electrical, and storage allowances. If a nearby report includes a pump setting, confirm that the number belongs to the same well and makes sense beside its construction details before treating it as a comparison.

Stock and Irrigation History Does Not Equal a Domestic Quote

The driller file includes 376 stock wells with positive depths, averaging 139.6 feet and ranging from 40 to 380 feet. The 363 irrigation records average 174.4 feet, with a 14-to-415-foot recorded range. Those groups establish substantial agricultural history without becoming household estimates.

Test wells form another large lane: 205 positive-depth records averaging 192.3 feet. The 85 monitor records average only 38.2 feet. Blending monitor entries with irrigation, test, stock, and domestic rows would create a number that belongs to no specific project.

Other uses can add context after nearby domestic completions have been mapped. A stock record close to a ranch tract may be worth reading, while a monitor record can indicate investigation activity. Use class, coordinates, date, and the original filing should travel with every depth number.

Place Names Are Orientation Aids, Not Property Boundaries

Wellington and Quail appear often in the local file. Samnorwood and Dodson also appear, along with capitalization variants, blanks, and labels such as Shamrock, Texola, Memphis, and McLean. A mailing city can describe an address or route rather than the well’s exact physical location.

Coordinates and proposed use should control tract-level comparisons. Two records labeled Wellington may be miles apart, and one might serve livestock while another supplies a residence. A city filter is a convenient first pass, not proof that two completions share geology, groundwater conditions, or regulatory jurisdiction.

Unusual depths deserve source review instead of automatic deletion or extra weight. The question is not whether a record looks tidy. The question is whether its coordinates, use, age, and construction make it relevant to the land being evaluated.

Blaine and Seymour Labels Need Local Context

The groundwater database contains 1,483 Collingsworth County rows. The largest category is Other at 661 records. Blaine appears on 437 rows, Seymour on 267, and Blaine/Other on 99. Smaller groups include Ogallala/Other, Seymour/Blaine, Ogallala, and unassigned records.

The Texas Seymour aquifer guide and Texas Ogallala aquifer guide provide useful regional context for named records. They do not prove that either aquifer serves a tract, nor do they promise depth, yield, standing water level, or chemistry. Even the prominent Blaine label remains historical database evidence until nearby source records and the site are reviewed.

Mixed and Other labels are reasons to keep the investigation local. Plot the closest relevant wells, open the underlying reports, and ask a licensed driller how that record history relates to current site conditions and intended demand.

Groundwater District Coverage Must Be Checked by Tract

Scout’s preflight returned Mesquite Groundwater Conservation District for Wellington and an interior county point. A check near the county boundary returned no district. Those spot checks are exactly why this page does not make a countywide coverage claim.

Enter the property’s street address or coordinates in the Texas groundwater conservation district lookup. Then confirm current registration, spacing, permitting, replacement-well, production, and plugging requirements directly with the authority returned for that exact tract. A district answer for a Wellington address cannot be copied onto acreage near a boundary.

The database also contains 160 plugged-well rows assigned to Collingsworth County. That count establishes county history only. It does not prove a plugged, abandoned, or undocumented well exists on any property. For land sold with an existing private well, the Texas water-well disclosure guide can help organize seller records, equipment details, service history, tests, and unanswered questions.

Depth Cannot Settle Water Quality or Yield

A 130-foot median does not tell a buyer what will come from a faucet. Water chemistry can vary with the producing interval, well condition, construction, nearby activity, treatment equipment, and household plumbing. An operating system needs a current sample collected appropriately and analyzed by a qualified laboratory for the property and intended use.

Ask when the system was last serviced, how a sample was collected, and whether treatment equipment was bypassed. An older test can be valuable history without being a current answer. A planned new well follows a different sequence because its water cannot be tested until the well exists and has been properly completed.

Quantity is separate from quality. Neither a filed depth, pump setting, aquifer label, nor nearby irrigation completion guarantees household yield. Public evidence can sharpen the questions, but field measurements and qualified contractor guidance must establish present performance.

Price the Complete System, Not a Median

The domestic depth figures are planning references, not contractor prices. A full Collingsworth County budget may include mobilization, drilling, casing, completion materials, pump and controls, pressure equipment, trenching, electrical work, storage, testing, treatment, freeze protection, and cleanup. Gate width, overhead lines, soft ground, fences, and the distance to power can affect the site plan before drilling begins.

The Texas water well drilling cost guide explains the categories behind a headline estimate. Ask each licensed contractor what is included, what remains an allowance, how added footage is priced, who coordinates power and testing, and what happens if the completed well calls for different equipment than the first proposal assumed.

Existing wells require the same discipline. Low pressure or poor performance might involve the pump, pressure tank, controls, power supply, water level, well condition, or more than one issue. Records can establish history; diagnosis and repair pricing belong to qualified professionals working from the current system.

Nearby and Regional County Pages for Comparison

The nearest published county page is Childress County. Briscoe and Carson add broader eastern Panhandle and High Plains context while adjacent counties await their own reviewed pages. These comparisons show how quickly use mixes, depth patterns, and aquifer labels change:

• Water well drilling records in nearby Childress County
• Water well drilling records in regional Briscoe County
• Water well drilling records in Panhandle-region Carson County

Turn the Collingsworth County File Into a Property Decision

This page is for buyers, landowners, agents, and rural sellers working around Wellington, Quail, Samnorwood, Dodson, and the acreage between them. The county file becomes useful only after domestic records are separated from larger stock, irrigation, test, and monitor lanes.

If you are screening several properties, begin with the Free Well Check. If one tract has reached the inspection, negotiation, financing, or building stage, use the Pre-Drill Intelligence Report to assemble nearby evidence and unresolved questions in one place.