Concho County’s Record File Needs a Household Filter

Concho County contains 1,204 submitted driller records, but a county total is not a household depth estimate. The usable domestic lane holds 252 positive total-depth filings. Keeping those records separate from every other use is the first step toward a useful comparison for rural property around Eden, Paint Rock, Millersview, and the ranch country between them.

That distinction matters because a record was created for a particular well, use, place, and moment. A nearby stock, irrigation, public-supply, monitor, or test record may answer a legitimate question without describing the likely design of a household system. Coordinates, use class, filing date, construction details, and the original document all belong beside the depth.

Begin with the Texas water well records lookup when screening a tract. When a property becomes a serious purchase, construction, or replacement candidate, a Pre-Drill Intelligence Report can organize nearby records and unresolved questions. TurnKey Wells organizes public evidence; it does not drill wells or guarantee field results.

What 252 Domestic Depth Logs Actually Show

The domestic subset has a median reported total depth of 120 feet. The middle half runs from 100 to 160 feet, and 90 percent of the usable domestic filings are at or below 200 feet. Those markers describe the records in this sample. They do not prescribe the depth of the next well.

The median is more useful than a single county average because it is less easily pulled by unusually shallow or deep entries. Even so, it remains a countywide midpoint. A tract’s useful comparison group may be smaller after records are sorted by location, use, age, source document, and construction details.

The upper marker also deserves careful wording. “Ninety percent at or below 200 feet” describes this historical domestic sample; it is not a cap, a bid, or a promise that drilling will stop by that footage. A licensed driller has to respond to the geology and conditions encountered at the actual site.

• Total Concho County SDR rows: 1,204
• Usable domestic total-depth logs: 252
• Median domestic total depth: 120 ft
• Domestic total-depth middle band: 100 to 160 ft
• Domestic 90th-percentile marker: 200 ft

Fourteen Pump-Depth Filings Are a Small Historical Subset

Only 14 usable domestic filings in the supplied county data include a positive pump-depth value. Their median is 127.5 feet. That sample is far too small to treat as a county norm, and it should not be used to select equipment or tell a contractor where to set a pump.

Total depth and pump setting answer different questions. Total depth describes how far a completed hole extends. A pump setting reflects the completed well, static water level, anticipated drawdown, intended demand, equipment characteristics, and the contractor’s evaluation. A pump can sit above the bottom, and two wells of similar depth can require different equipment decisions.

If a nearby filing includes pump depth, verify that the value belongs to the same well and read it beside the source record. For budgeting, ask contractors to separate drilling footage from pump, controls, pressure equipment, electrical work, storage, and treatment allowances.

A Depth Distribution Cannot Promise Yield

The 120-foot median is a planning reference, not a production test. A filed depth does not tell a buyer how much water a well will supply today, how quickly it recovers under demand, or whether a proposed household, livestock, or irrigation load is appropriate.

Yield depends on the water-bearing interval, completion, well condition, seasonal and longer-term groundwater conditions, pumping rate, and actual demand. Nearby records can help frame questions, but they do not replace field measurements or licensed contractor judgment. A promising comparison remains evidence, not a warranty.

The same discipline applies to a low-performing existing well. Pressure trouble might involve the pump, pressure tank, controls, power, water level, well condition, plumbing, treatment equipment, or more than one issue. The Texas private-well maintenance guide can help organize service questions while diagnosis stays with qualified professionals.

Place Names Help Only When Coordinates Stay in Charge

Eden, Paint Rock, and Millersview are useful search labels, but they are not geological boundaries. A mailing place may describe an address or route rather than the precise well location. Two filings carrying the same community name can still sit in different aquifer, drainage, access, and regulatory contexts.

Plot the coordinates before calling a record “nearby.” Then confirm use class, record age, reported construction, and the original filing. A domestic completion on similar ranch terrain may be more informative than a closer record drilled for a different purpose.

Site access belongs in the comparison too. Gates, low-water crossings, overhead lines, slope, wet-weather access, septic placement, and distance to power can change the practical plan without changing a database depth. A record search is strongest when it connects the paperwork to the physical tract.

Edwards-Trinity Context Is Important, but Not Exclusive

Concho County is chiefly associated with the Edwards-Trinity (Plateau) aquifer in regional planning context, but the county is not geologically uniform. Official district plans also describe the Lipan aquifer in western Concho County and Hickory aquifer context in southeastern portions. Those regional descriptions are a warning against assigning one aquifer to every county address.

The Edwards-Trinity Plateau aquifer guide explains the broader system. It cannot identify the producing interval for a tract, promise depth or yield, or resolve local water chemistry. Even an aquifer label printed on a historical record should be checked against coordinates, source documentation, and current professional interpretation.

Use nearby domestic filings to form a hypothesis, not a verdict. Ask which records are truly local, whether their aquifer labels were reported or inferred, and how their completion details compare with the proposed site.

District Boundaries Split the County Conversation

Groundwater regulation in Concho County cannot be answered from the county name alone. The Texas Water Development Board-approved 2024 management plan for Hickory Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 reports that the district covers 11.44 percent of Concho County. The approved 2023 Lipan-Kickapoo Water Conservation District plan describes other territory in Concho County outside the Hickory district and specifically excludes Paint Rock from its general boundary description.

That means “in Concho County” is not a district determination. Enter the property’s address or coordinates in the Texas groundwater conservation district lookup, review the resulting boundary evidence, and confirm current registration, permitting, spacing, production, replacement-well, and plugging questions directly with the responsible authority.

District plans and maps can change, and municipal or excluded areas can complicate a countywide description. Preserve the exact location used for the lookup and record the date of any direct confirmation. Do not let a neighboring tract’s answer become an assumption for the property under review.

Depth Does Not Answer the Water-Quality Question

A domestic depth record does not reveal what will come from a faucet. Water chemistry can vary with the producing interval, well construction, well condition, nearby activity, treatment equipment, storage, and household plumbing. A shallow-looking historical completion may still require careful testing and source review.

For an operating well, collect a current sample appropriately and use a qualified laboratory for the property and intended use. Ask when the system was last serviced, whether treatment equipment was bypassed for sampling, and which results describe raw water versus treated water. An old laboratory report can be useful history without serving as a present answer.

Buyers should also gather construction records, repair invoices, equipment details, service history, and recent performance information. The Texas water-well disclosure guide provides a practical framework for organizing those documents and the questions that remain.

Price the Complete Ranch Water System

The county depth figures are not contractor prices. A complete Concho County budget may include mobilization, drilling, casing, completion materials, pump and controls, pressure equipment, trenching, electrical work, storage, testing, treatment, freeze protection, and cleanup. Remote access or long electrical and plumbing runs can matter as much as the first footage estimate.

The Texas water well drilling cost guide explains the categories behind a headline quote. Ask what is included, what remains an allowance, how added footage is priced, who coordinates power and testing, and how the proposal changes if the completed well calls for different equipment.

Compare bids line by line. A lower drilling number may omit parts of the usable household system, while a larger proposal may include equipment, electrical, storage, or testing that another contractor leaves to the owner. The useful number is the documented scope, not the most attractive isolated rate.

Three Published County Pages Show Why Local Sorting Matters

Coke County is the closest published TurnKey Wells county comparison currently available. Childress and Carson provide additional Rolling Plains and Panhandle examples. None substitutes for Concho County evidence; their value is showing how quickly depth distributions, aquifer context, record volume, and planning questions change across Texas.

• Water well drilling records in nearby Coke County
• Water well drilling records in Childress County
• Water well drilling records in Carson County

Read those pages as comparison lessons, not transferred estimates. Concho County’s 252 usable domestic logs, split district context, and local aquifer variability require their own tract-centered workflow.

Turn the Concho County File Into a Property Decision

A productive review starts with a simple sequence: identify the tract, map the nearby domestic records, open the most relevant source documents, keep the 14-row pump-depth subset in its proper small-sample lane, verify district and aquifer context, and write down what public evidence cannot answer.

The Texas water wells overview can help buyers and landowners understand the parts of a private-water system. 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.