North Dakota Well Data · ND DWR
ND DWR well records, searchable by address
Every North Dakota well log is filed with the North Dakota Department of Water Resources drillers log file. Those records are public, but they are organized by mapped location and record number — not by street address. We hold 51,990 of them and rebuild the index weekly, so you can start from an address instead.
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Enter any North Dakota address and we return the wells recorded around it — North Dakota records no street address for a well — location comes from the PLSS site description on the driller's log — so results show the wells around a location rather than a single wellhead.
Free address lookup Full property report — $29What a ND DWR record contains
Not every filed report carries every field — older records are thinner, and what the state captured changed over the decades. This is the real coverage across all 51,990 records, so you know what to expect before you search.
| Field | What it tells you | Records with it | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Original log document | A direct link to the ND DWR copy of the filed log itself. | 51,990 (100%) | |
| Driller | The licensed company that drilled the well and signed the log. | 51,910 (100%) | |
| Mapped location | Coordinates, so the log can be found by address instead of by record number. | 51,897 (100%) | |
| Date completed | When the well was finished and the log filed. | 51,611 (99%) |
How this differs from going to ND DWR directly
Nothing here replaces the official record, and for a single well you already have the record number for, ND DWR is the place to go (www.dwr.nd.gov). What this site adds is the part that is hard from the source data:
- An address is enough. You do not need a record number, a section-township-range, or a latitude to start. North Dakota records no street address for a well — location comes from the PLSS site description on the driller's log — so results show the wells around a location rather than a single wellhead.
- The neighbours, not just the well. What matters is what the drillers around a parcel actually filed — which means pulling many logs at once, not one.
- Counted the same way everywhere. Log counts, drilling dates and the companies named on them are computed identically in every county, so two counties can actually be compared. The exact filters are on the methodology page.
- The original is always one click away. 51,990 of our records carry a direct link to the ND DWR copy of the filed log itself.
ND DWR records by county
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Common questions
With ND DWR — the North Dakota Department of Water Resources drillers log file. Every North Dakota driller files a completion report there for each well drilled, and that filing is the authoritative copy of the record. The official site is www.dwr.nd.gov.
Not directly — well records are filed against a mapped location and a record number, not a mailing address, which is the single most common reason people give up on the search. That is exactly the gap this site fills: enter an address on our free lookup and we return the recorded wells around that point, North Dakota records no street address for a well — location comes from the PLSS site description on the driller's log — so results show the wells around a location rather than a single wellhead.
No, and it is not meant to be. This is an independent index built from the data ND DWR publishes, rebuilt weekly. Every well we show links back to its own ND DWR record, so you can always open the original filed log. If our copy and the state's ever disagree, the state's is right.
Our current copy holds 51,990 records across 53 counties, with completion dates from 1954 to 2026. That is everything ND DWR publishes in its bulk record set as of 2026-08-25. Wells drilled before the state's filing requirement — and hand-dug or unpermitted wells — were never filed anywhere, so they are in neither copy.
Searching by address here is free, the same as searching ND DWR is free. What we charge for is the compiled property report — every recorded well near one address, with the statistics and the original log links, as one printable document for a sale or a loan file. That is $29.
The property report pulls every recorded well near an address — drillers, purposes, dates , and links to each original filed log — as one printable summary for due diligence.
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