Water Well Drilling in Childress County, TX

Childress County Records Need to Be Sorted by Well Use

Childress County has enough public well history to improve a property conversation, but the full county average is not a household estimate. The TurnKey Wells database carries 708 submitted driller records. Only 71 domestic records have usable total-depth values. The rest include stock, monitor, irrigation, test, injection, industrial, rig-supply, and environmental work built for different purposes.

That distinction matters on acreage around Childress, Kirkland, Tell, Carey, and the rural ground between them. A shallow monitor point may be legitimate environmental evidence, while an irrigation well may reflect a demand and equipment plan far beyond a house. Neither should be used as a shortcut for pricing a private domestic system.

Start with the Texas water well records lookup while screening a listing. When the tract becomes a real purchase, construction, or replacement decision, a Pre-Drill Intelligence Report can organize nearby domestic completions, aquifer clues, older-well history, and current rule questions before a licensed driller evaluates the site. TurnKey Wells organizes public evidence; it does not drill wells or guarantee field results.

What 71 Domestic Depth Logs Show

The usable domestic file has a 140-foot median total depth. Its middle half runs from about 100 to 160 feet, and 90 percent of the recorded values are at or below roughly 180 feet. The full range is 28 to 270 feet, with an average of about 133.3 feet.

Those numbers are historical guideposts, not a forecast for the next hole. The 28-foot low end is a warning against treating the shallowest filing as a budget anchor. Location, ground elevation, intended demand, record age, producing interval, construction details, and the quality of the original filing can all change whether a nearby record is truly comparable.

Pump settings form a smaller sample. Only 34 domestic rows contain a usable pump depth. Their median is 127 feet, the middle band runs from about 80 to 141 feet, and the 90th-percentile marker is 155 feet. Recorded settings range from 27 to 205 feet. Total depth and pump depth are different measurements, but both affect the finished-system discussion.

• Total Childress County SDR rows: 708
• Usable domestic total-depth logs: 71
• Median domestic total depth: 140 ft
• Domestic total-depth middle band: about 100 to 160 ft
• Domestic 90th-percentile marker: about 180 ft
• Recorded domestic total-depth range: 28 to 270 ft
• Usable domestic pump-depth logs: 34
• Median recorded domestic pump depth: 127 ft

Stock, Irrigation, and Monitor Wells Tell Different Stories

Stock wells are the largest use group in the Childress County driller file. The database has 229 stock records with usable depths, averaging about 147.1 feet. That history fits the county’s rural land-use context, but livestock demand and construction choices do not automatically match a house, guest quarters, or a planned shop.

The 96 irrigation depth records average about 228.9 feet, noticeably deeper than the domestic average. Meanwhile, 180 monitor wells average only 35.4 feet, and 17 environmental soil borings average about 22.9 feet. Combining those categories would create a county number that describes no specific system well.

Childress County also has 86 test-well records averaging about 162.9 feet and 24 injection records averaging about 30.5 feet. Those entries may add environmental or development context, but household planning should begin with nearby domestic completions. Other uses belong in the supporting file only after their purpose and location are understood.

Childress, Kirkland, and Tell Still Require Coordinate-Level Review

The driller data contains place labels such as Childress, Kirkland, Tell, Carey, Dodson, and Wellington, along with blank fields and inconsistent capitalization. A mailing city may not identify the well site precisely, and some listed places sit outside the county. That makes city-name filtering a useful first pass, not a final comparison method.

Coordinates, proposed use, completion date, and construction details should travel with every depth number. Two wells carrying a Childress mailing label may sit miles apart or serve very different properties. One shallow record may be an old domestic well; another may be a monitor point that should never have entered the household lane.

A practical review also flags incomplete and unusual records instead of silently discarding them. An outlier is not automatically wrong. It is a reason to inspect the underlying filing and decide whether it actually resembles the tract, demand, and project under consideration.

Blaine and Seymour Labels Are Starting Clues, Not Guarantees

The groundwater database contains 370 Childress County rows. The largest group is 229 records labeled Blaine. Another 31 are labeled Seymour, while 27 carry a Blaine/Other label and 22 carry a Seymour/Blaine label. The remaining rows are tagged Other or Unassigned.

That mix is useful because it warns against describing the county as one uniform underground container. A historical aquifer tag does not promise which interval a new well will use, its finished depth, its standing water level, its yield, or its chemistry. Mixed labels may also reflect older naming conventions, incomplete files, or wells associated with more than one unit.

Use nearby domestic completions to make the aquifer question local, then ask a licensed driller to connect those records to the exact site and intended demand. County-level labels can frame the investigation. They cannot finish it.

District and Existing-Well Questions Start With the Exact Tract

A county line does not settle groundwater jurisdiction or current paperwork. Enter the property in the Texas groundwater conservation district lookup, then confirm registration, spacing, permitting, replacement-well, production, and plugging requirements with the authority returned for the tract. Current instructions should control over an old contractor note or a neighbor’s recollection.

The database includes 226 plugged-well rows assigned to Childress County. That count establishes county history only. It does not prove a plugged, abandoned, or undocumented well exists on a particular parcel. A records review, seller documents, site walk, and direct follow-up are what turn the county clue into a property answer.

When an existing well is part of a sale, use the Texas water-well disclosure guide to organize the seller’s records, equipment details, service history, test results, and unanswered questions before closing.

Water Quality and Yield Need Field Evidence

A 140-foot median says nothing certain about what will come from a kitchen faucet. Water chemistry can vary with the producing interval, well condition, completion, nearby activity, treatment equipment, and the household plumbing after the pressure tank. An operating well needs a current sample analyzed by a qualified laboratory for the constituents appropriate to the property and intended use.

Ask when the system was last serviced, how the sample was collected, and whether treatment equipment was bypassed. An old test may be useful history, but it is not automatically a current picture. New construction follows a different sequence because the actual water cannot be sampled until the well exists and is properly completed.

Quantity is a separate field question. A historical total depth, pump setting, or aquifer label does not promise yield. Records are best used to identify comparable wells and sharper questions before the contractor evaluates access, demand, construction, and present conditions.

Budget for the Complete Childress County System

The county’s domestic depth figures are planning references, not contractor prices. A complete budget may include mobilization, drilling, casing, completion materials, pump and controls, pressure equipment, trenching, electrical work, storage, testing, treatment, freeze protection, and cleanup. Access across rural acreage can add its own grading, clearance, and scheduling questions.

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 needs different equipment than the first proposal assumed.

Existing systems deserve the same discipline. Low pressure or poor performance could involve a pump, pressure component, electrical fault, water-level issue, well condition, or more than one problem. Public records can establish history, but diagnosis and repair pricing belong to qualified professionals working from the current system.

Regional County Pages for Comparison

Published county pages elsewhere in the Panhandle and nearby Rolling Plains show how quickly well-use mixes, aquifer labels, and recorded depths change across the region. They are useful context, not substitutes for Childress County comparables:

• Water well drilling records in Briscoe County west of Childress County
• Water well drilling records in Carson County across the Texas Panhandle
• Water well drilling records in Castro County’s irrigation-heavy High Plains file
• Concho County water well drilling records

Turn the County File Into a Property Decision

This page is for buyers, landowners, agents, and rural sellers working around Childress, Kirkland, Tell, Carey, and surrounding acreage. The county file offers a useful baseline once domestic records are separated from stock, irrigation, monitor, test, and environmental work.

If you are comparing 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 the nearby evidence and unresolved questions in one place.

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