The Wyoming State Engineer's Office records every water well permit ever filed. We read all 161,037 of them.
How deep is the water under Wyoming?
County by county, well by well.
Median drilled depths, static water levels, tested yields, and what a new well actually costs — computed from the official record, not national averages.
✓ State Engineer records through 2023-09-01 · checked 2026-07-06
180 ftmedian well depth statewide
60 ftmedian static water level
20 gpmmedian well yield
13,073well permits filed since 2016
Buying property with a well — or land you'd need to drill?
See every recorded well near any Wyoming address: depths, water levels, yields, and the original driller's logs.
Free address lookup Property report — $19Well data by county
Albany County
6,899 wells · median 96 ft Big Horn County
2,351 wells · median 35 ft Campbell County
25,543 wells · median 627 ft Carbon County
5,441 wells · median 110 ft Converse County
7,920 wells · median 210 ft Crook County
4,246 wells · median 200 ft Fremont County
11,313 wells · median 120 ft Goshen County
7,953 wells · median 115 ft Hot Springs County
1,701 wells · median 70 ft Johnson County
6,846 wells · median 345 ft Laramie County
16,662 wells · median 300 ft Lincoln County
5,178 wells · median 118 ft Natrona County
8,250 wells · median 60 ft Niobrara County
3,372 wells · median 160 ft Park County
7,564 wells · median 60 ft Platte County
5,808 wells · median 160 ft Sheridan County
9,629 wells · median 187 ft Sublette County
5,632 wells · median 140 ft Sweetwater County
4,718 wells · median 260 ft Teton County
5,951 wells · median 72 ft Uinta County
3,679 wells · median 67 ft Washakie County
2,223 wells · median 60 ft Weston County
2,152 wells · median 205 ft
What you can answer here
- How deep will my well need to be? Median and range of actual drilled depths near you — not national averages.
- What will it cost? Local median depth × published per-foot rates, with the math shown.
- Will it produce enough water? Yields from pump tests on nearby wells.
- Who drills around here? The drillers who actually filed recent well logs in your county.