Nebraska Well Data · Well logs
Nebraska well logs
Every time a well is drilled in Nebraska, the driller files a completion report — the well log — with the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources registered groundwater wells database. We hold 267,260 of them and rebuild this index weekly, so you can find one by address instead of by record number.
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Well logs are filed by location, not by house number. Enter any Nebraska address and we'll pull the recorded wells around it — every registered Nebraska well carries a mapped location, but the state files wells by section and township rather than by street address, so results show the records around a property rather than a single wellhead.
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Not every filed report carries every field — older logs are thinner, and what the state captured changed over the decades. This is the actual coverage across all 267,260 records, so you know what to expect before you look anything up.
| Field | What it tells you | Records with it | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mapped location | Coordinates, so the log can be found by address instead of by record number. | 267,260 (100%) | |
| Total depth | How deep the hole was drilled, in feet. | 256,454 (96%) | |
| Date completed | When the well was finished and the log filed. | 253,198 (95%) | |
| Static water level | How far below the surface the water stood at rest. | 237,472 (89%) | |
| Tested yield | Gallons per minute the well produced on the driller’s pump test. | 189,932 (71%) |
When Nebraska's wells were drilled
Dated logs by decade of completion (253,198 of 267,260 records carry a usable completion date). The shape of this chart is mostly the history of the filing requirement, not of drilling — thin early decades mean the logs weren't kept, not that nobody drilled.
| Decade | Logs filed | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 3 | |
| 1890s | 4 | |
| 1900s | 20 | |
| 1910s | 41 | |
| 1920s | 260 | |
| 1930s | 1,482 | |
| 1940s | 5,062 | |
| 1950s | 17,896 | |
| 1960s | 14,265 | |
| 1970s | 33,954 | |
| 1980s | 12,647 | |
| 1990s | 40,067 | |
| 2000s | 63,622 | |
| 2010s | 43,682 | |
| 2020s | 20,193 |
Three ways to find a well log here
- By address — the free lookup maps an address to the wells recorded around it. This is what most people want: "how deep is the well on the place I'm buying."
- By county — each county page carries the median depth, water level and yield computed from every log filed there, plus the drillers working it.
Well logs by county
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Where these records come from
All of it is public record from the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources' registered groundwater wells database, which every well in the state must be registered in by law (dnr.nebraska.gov/groundwater/registered-groundwater-wells). We don't hold anything the state doesn't publish. More on that database and what a filed record carries: NeDNR well records. What we add is that the records are indexed by location, the statistics are computed the same way in every county, and the whole thing is refreshed weekly. Our filters and the exact computation are on the methodology page (statistics use Nebraska DNR registered groundwater wells; decommissioned wells are excluded from the working-well counts but still counted in depth history; depths 0-5,000 ft).
Common questions
Yes. Nebraska drillers are required to file a completion report for each well, and those reports are kept by the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources registered groundwater wells database. Anyone can look them up. This site is an independent index of that public record — we re-read the source and recompute every page weekly.
Well logs are filed by location, not by street address, so you search the map rather than a house number. Enter the address on our free lookup and you'll see the recorded wells around that spot — every registered Nebraska well carries a mapped location, but the state files wells by section and township rather than by street address, so results show the records around a property rather than a single wellhead. Each one shows its depth, static water level, tested yield.
The oldest dated log in our copy was completed in 1884; the newest is from 2026. Coverage thins out the further back you go — older wells were often never filed, and filing requirements tightened over time.
Most likely it was never filed. Wells drilled before the state's reporting requirement — and hand-dug or unpermitted wells — have no log at all. It also happens that a log exists but its recorded location is off, in which case it will show up under a neighboring property. Neither is something we can fix from the source data, and we'd rather say so than invent a record.
The useful parts for a buyer or a homeowner: how deep the well is, how high the water stands in it, how many gallons per minute it produced when tested, what the driller hit on the way down, and who drilled it. Together those say whether the well is likely to keep producing and what a replacement would cost.
The property report pulls every recorded well near an address — depths, water levels, yields, drillers — as one printable summary for due diligence.
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