Water Well Drilling in Cass County, TX
1,460
Submitted Driller Records
923
Usable Domestic Depth Logs
380 ft
Median Domestic Total Depth
Carrizo-Wilcox
Main Aquifer Signal
Cass County Well Planning Starts With a Deep Household File
Cass County has enough well records to support real planning, but only after the household rows are separated from the shallow monitoring work. The canonical file contains 1,460 submitted driller records. Of those, 923 are domestic wells with usable total-depth values. That is a strong household sample for buyers around Linden, Atlanta, Queen City, Avinger, Hughes Springs, Douglassville, and the rural ground between them.
The catch is that the full county file also includes monitoring points, environmental borings, rig-supply wells, stock wells, irrigation wells, and public-supply infrastructure. Blend all of those together and the result stops describing a private well for a house. Cass County is not one neat average, and the shortest rows in the database are not evidence of a cheap residential project.
Use the Texas water well records lookup while screening a tract. When the property becomes a real purchase or building decision, the Pre-Drill Intelligence Report can narrow the file to nearby household comparables, older-well history, aquifer clues, and the questions worth taking to a licensed driller. TurnKey Wells organizes the evidence; it does not drill the well.
What the Cass County Domestic Depth Records Show
The domestic subset gives Cass County buyers a useful baseline. All 923 domestic records in the current SDR file carry a usable total depth. The median is 380 feet. The middle half runs from about 320 to 477 feet, while the upper planning marker reaches 562 feet. Recorded household depths range from 38 to 769 feet.
That spread is the important part. A 380-foot median does not mean the next tract will finish at 380 feet, and the handful of shallow records should not anchor a budget. Cass County has a broad household distribution, with enough deeper completions to affect casing, pump, electrical, storage, treatment, and access conversations before a rig arrives.
Pump records are also substantial. The county has 855 usable domestic pump-depth entries. Their median is 231 feet, the middle band is about 189 to 276.5 feet, and the upper marker is 336 feet. Finished depth and pump setting are different measurements, but both belong in the complete-system plan.
- Total SDR records: 1,460 rows assigned to Cass County
- Usable domestic total-depth logs: 923
- Median domestic total depth: 380 ft
- Domestic total-depth middle band: about 320 to 477 ft
- Domestic upper planning marker: about 562 ft
- Recorded domestic depth range: 38 to 769 ft
- Usable domestic pump-depth logs: 855
- Median domestic pump depth: 231 ft
- Domestic pump-depth middle band: about 189 to 276.5 ft
- Domestic upper pump marker: about 336 ft
Shallow Monitor and Boring Records Do Not Price a House Well
The main distortion in Cass County comes from the shallow side of the file. The database contains 228 monitor wells averaging about 26.7 feet and 110 environmental soil borings averaging about 13.8 feet. Those rows may be useful for environmental history. They do not describe a household water supply.
Other categories run much deeper. Cass County has 89 rig-supply wells averaging about 309.8 feet, 36 stock wells averaging about 472.9 feet, and 32 irrigation wells averaging about 437.8 feet. The file also includes 13 test wells averaging about 318.2 feet and 12 public-supply wells averaging about 543.8 feet.
Every category is legitimate, but each was built for a different job. The practical filter is to start with domestic completions near the tract, then use stock, irrigation, public-supply, or older inactive records only as supporting context. A 14-foot boring is not a water well estimate, and a public-supply completion is not a household quote.
Atlanta, Linden, and Queen City Need Property-Level Comparables
The largest clear place labels in the driller file are Atlanta and Linden, followed by Avinger, Queen City, and Hughes Springs. Smaller clusters appear around Douglassville, Bloomburg, Bivins, Marietta, and other rural addresses. Those labels help orient a search, but they are not a substitute for coordinates and tract-level review.
The city field includes capitalization differences, spelling variants, blanks, and mailing labels that may not identify the well site precisely. A property outside Atlanta can have a different comparison set from acreage near Avinger or the county line. Intended use matters too: a one-house system, livestock demand, a shop, guest quarters, and irrigation taps do not create the same design problem.
Cass County’s large domestic sample is useful because it gives the review enough rows to narrow. It becomes valuable after location, use, completion date, and well type are considered together. Dropping all 1,460 records into a spreadsheet and sorting by depth is not the same thing as understanding a property.
Carrizo-Wilcox and Queen City Labels Both Matter Here
The groundwater database contains 307 Cass County rows. The dominant group is 210 records tagged Carrizo-Wilcox/Queen City. Another 62 are tagged Carrizo-Wilcox, and 22 are tagged Queen City. Small groups carry Sparta, Other, mixed, or unassigned labels. The Carrizo-Wilcox aquifer guide for Texas property owners is a useful regional starting point, but Cass County should not be reduced to one aquifer name.
A historical aquifer tag does not promise the next well’s depth, yield, water level, chemistry, or long-term performance. Mixed labels also warn against assuming that every nearby record describes the same screened interval. Two wells can share a county and still be poor comparables because they were built for different uses or completed in different water-bearing units.
Use the aquifer file to frame the likely questions. Use nearby domestic completions to make those questions local. Then let a licensed driller evaluate the property, intended demand, construction plan, and current field conditions before any depth or equipment choice is treated as settled.
District Status and Older-Well History Belong in the Early Review
Cass County buyers should not assume a county name supplies the current permit answer. Northeast Texas groundwater governance is changing, but a proposal is not an operating district. The site’s Northeast Texas groundwater district brief explains that distinction and why buyers should verify the rule setting that exists today instead of repeating a future-plan headline.
Start with the Texas groundwater conservation district lookup, then confirm the current tract answer with the applicable public authority and a licensed driller. If an existing well is part of a sale, use the Texas water-well disclosure guide to organize seller records, well status, district information, and unanswered questions before closing.
The canonical database also contains 420 plugged-well rows assigned to Cass County. That count establishes county history only. It does not prove an abandoned or plugged well exists on a specific tract. Property records, a site walk, and direct confirmation are what turn that county clue into an answer a buyer can use.
Water Quality, Equipment, and Wet-Weather Access Need Separate Answers
The public depth file cannot tell a buyer what comes out of the tap today. Water chemistry can vary by producing interval, well construction, condition, nearby land use, and household plumbing. A current sample should be tested for the constituents recommended by the driller, laboratory, or public authority. Treatment should follow the result, not a county stereotype.
The domestic depth and pump records also make equipment planning important. Pump horsepower, setting depth, pressure-tank size, storage, electrical service, trenching, freeze protection, and treatment all affect the finished system. A clean wellhead does not answer those questions, and a total-depth log does not specify the right pump.
Red-clay access, wooded drive approaches, drainage, long utility runs, clearing, and wet-weather mobility can change the field scope in Cass County. Those are ordinary Northeast Texas site questions, but the added work belongs in a contractor’s tract-specific proposal rather than in a countywide promise.
Build the Budget Around the Complete Cass County System
The county’s 380-foot domestic median and 231-foot median pump depth are planning references, not contractor prices. A useful budget covers the drilled hole, casing and completion, pump equipment, pressure components, trenching, electrical work, storage, testing, treatment, and any access work needed before the rig can operate.
The Texas water well cost guide explains those categories, but only a licensed driller can price the exact tract. Ask whether the proposal includes mobilization, footage assumptions, casing, pump and controls, electrical coordination, water testing, cleanup, and any current paperwork. A low drilling number is not a complete household-system price.
Replacement work deserves the same discipline. An older well may have a usable bore, a failed pump, missing completion records, water-quality issues, or a plugging question. Cass County has enough domestic and plugged-well history that the record should be reviewed before anyone assumes the cheapest repair path.
Who This Cass County Page Is For
This page is for buyers, landowners, agents, and rural sellers trying to understand a private-water question around Atlanta, Linden, Queen City, Avinger, Hughes Springs, Douglassville, Bloomburg, Bivins, or surrounding Cass County acreage. It provides a county baseline while keeping the drilling decision where it belongs: on the exact property and with a licensed professional.
If you are still sorting through listings, begin with the Free Well Check. If the tract is active and the water question could affect price, timing, construction, or negotiations, use the Pre-Drill Intelligence Report to pull the relevant Cass County evidence into one decision file.
Regional County Pages Worth Comparing
Cass County borders Camp and Bowie counties, but the domestic well pattern changes sharply across the region. These three published pages provide useful Northeast and East Texas comparisons:
- Water well drilling in adjacent Bowie County
- Water well drilling in adjacent Camp County
- Water well drilling in Panola County
Cass County well planning
Price the household system, not the county’s shallow noise.
TurnKey Wells can separate Cass County’s domestic records from monitor wells, borings, and mixed-use entries before those rows distort a property decision.