The state of New York keeps a log of every well ever drilled. We read all 144,499 of them.
New York well logs, made useful.
Every well completion report filed with New York's DEC — owner, depth, well type and the scanned original report — brought together around one address, instead of one record at a time.
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160 ftmedian well depth statewide
10 gpmmedian well yield
445 ft9 in 10 wells are shallower than this
144,498wells you can look up by location
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.
These are NYSDEC records
Every figure here comes from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation water well completion reports — the state's official well-log repository. We index those same records by location so you can start from an address, and every well links back to its original filed log.
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Well data by county
Albany County
1,567 wells · median 251 ft Allegany County
2,300 wells · median 109 ft Bronx County
14 wells · median 505 ft Broome County
1,779 wells · median 170 ft Cattaraugus County
3,022 wells · median 100 ft Cayuga County
1,578 wells · median 120 ft Chautauqua County
3,234 wells · median 80 ft Chemung County
1,016 wells · median 130 ft Chenango County
1,770 wells · median 186 ft Clinton County
2,229 wells · median 165 ft Columbia County
3,807 wells · median 345 ft Cortland County
1,301 wells · median 164 ft Delaware County
2,626 wells · median 274 ft Dutchess County
4,988 wells · median 345 ft Erie County
2,481 wells · median 70 ft Essex County
2,045 wells · median 345 ft Franklin County
1,934 wells · median 180 ft Fulton County
1,680 wells · median 202 ft Genesee County
960 wells · median 55 ft Greene County
2,246 wells · median 298 ft Hamilton County
819 wells · median 300 ft Herkimer County
1,764 wells · median 173 ft Jefferson County
2,500 wells · median 105 ft Kings County
97 wells · median 85 ft Lewis County
1,043 wells · median 148 ft Livingston County
1,140 wells · median 106 ft Madison County
2,257 wells · median 116 ft Monroe County
615 wells · median 65 ft Montgomery County
909 wells · median 200 ft Nassau County
1,153 wells · median 100 ft New York County
10 wells · median 1,030 ft Niagara County
90 wells · median 60 ft Oneida County
3,137 wells · median 100 ft Onondaga County
2,236 wells · median 160 ft Ontario County
1,487 wells · median 100 ft Orange County
8,369 wells · median 290 ft Orleans County
218 wells · median 45 ft Oswego County
2,109 wells · median 75 ft Otsego County
1,928 wells · median 165 ft Putnam County
1,293 wells · median 400 ft Queens County
118 wells · median 118 ft Rensselaer County
3,930 wells · median 320 ft Richmond County
12 wells · median 315 ft Rockland County
547 wells · median 225 ft Saratoga County
8,255 wells · median 198 ft Schenectady County
656 wells · median 240 ft Schoharie County
1,293 wells · median 239 ft Schuyler County
1,368 wells · median 104 ft Seneca County
828 wells · median 100 ft St. Lawrence County
2,832 wells · median 120 ft Steuben County
2,512 wells · median 120 ft Suffolk County
19,004 wells · median 65 ft Sullivan County
3,865 wells · median 305 ft Tioga County
1,908 wells · median 120 ft Tompkins County
2,771 wells · median 140 ft Ulster County
6,628 wells · median 272 ft Warren County
3,344 wells · median 320 ft Washington County
4,336 wells · median 360 ft Wayne County
661 wells · median 80 ft Westchester County
1,210 wells · median 495 ft Wyoming County
1,507 wells · median 80 ft Yates County
1,163 wells · median 117 ft