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Florida well logs

Every time a well is drilled in Florida, the driller files a completion report — the well log — with Florida's water-management districts and county well-permitting programs. We hold 1,406,970 of them and rebuild this index weekly, so you can find one by address instead of by record number.

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1,406,970well logs indexed
47counties covered
1920–2026oldest to newest log on file
1,274,161link to the original filed log
Find the well logs near an address

Well logs are filed by location, not by house number. Enter any Florida address and we'll pull the recorded wells around it — wells are plotted from coordinates recorded by the permitting district or county; coverage spans the ~36 Florida counties that publish well records as public data (the Tampa Bay, Orlando–Jacksonville, Fort Myers and Miami-Dade regions) — Broward, Palm Beach, Collier and the Panhandle counties keep their records offline and are not yet included. Within the covered counties, most wells carry precise permit coordinates; a subset of Southwest Florida (SWFWMD) permits were filed without a mapped location, so those wells are counted in the county-level statistics but do not appear in the address/map lookup (we omit them rather than plot a placeholder point).

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What's in a Florida well log

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 1,406,970 records, so you know what to expect before you look anything up.

FieldWhat it tells youRecords with itCoverage
Date completed When the well was finished and the log filed. 1,325,781 (94%)
Original log document A direct link to the FL WMD/county copy of the filed log itself. 1,274,161 (91%)
Total depth How deep the hole was drilled, in feet. 1,226,771 (87%)
Mapped location Coordinates, so the log can be found by address instead of by record number. 1,206,227 (86%)
Driller The licensed company that drilled the well and signed the log. 1,164,418 (83%)
Street address A street address on the filed report (varies a lot by state and era). 1,098,093 (78%)
Static water level How far below the surface the water stood at rest. 856,848 (61%)
Tested yield Gallons per minute the well produced on the driller’s pump test. 23,767 (2%)

When Florida's wells were drilled

Dated logs by decade of completion (1,325,781 of 1,406,970 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.

DecadeLogs filed
1920s 7
1930s 5
1940s 2
1950s 5
1960s 25
1970s 11,024
1980s 202,573
1990s 311,626
2000s 400,626
2010s 191,640
2020s 208,248

Three ways to find a well log here

  1. 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."
  2. By county — each county page carries the median depth, water level and yield computed from every log filed there, plus the drillers working it.
  3. By driller — every log names the company that drilled the well, so the 2,201 Florida drillers in our directory each have a profile built from their own filed logs.

Well logs by county

Hillsborough County 155,902 logs · median 56 ft Pinellas County 123,223 logs · median 24 ft Brevard County 112,838 logs · median 68 ft Polk County 99,891 logs · median 52 ft Sarasota County 98,540 logs · median 100 ft Lee County 92,544 logs · median 80 ft Marion County 88,481 logs · median 105 ft Pasco County 78,932 logs · median 75 ft Volusia County 58,100 logs · median 120 ft Citrus County 53,755 logs · median 96 ft Hernando County 44,955 logs · median 120 ft Duval County 42,099 logs · median 60 ft

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Where these records come from

All of it is public record from Florida's public well-construction records — aggregated from the Southwest and St. Johns River Water Management Districts and the Lee County and Miami-Dade well-permitting programs (www.floridadep.gov/water/water-well-construction). We don't hold anything the state doesn't publish. More on that database and what a filed record carries: FL WMD/county 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 public well records aggregated from Florida water-management districts + county programs (well-use codes vary by source, so all filed wells are included); depths 0–5,000 ft).

Common questions

Are Florida well logs public records?

Yes. Florida drillers are required to file a completion report for each well, and those reports are kept by Florida's water-management districts and county well-permitting programs. 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.

How do I find the well log for my property?

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 — wells are plotted from coordinates recorded by the permitting district or county; coverage spans the ~36 Florida counties that publish well records as public data (the Tampa Bay, Orlando–Jacksonville, Fort Myers and Miami-Dade regions) — Broward, Palm Beach, Collier and the Panhandle counties keep their records offline and are not yet included. Within the covered counties, most wells carry precise permit coordinates; a subset of Southwest Florida (SWFWMD) permits were filed without a mapped location, so those wells are counted in the county-level statistics but do not appear in the address/map lookup (we omit them rather than plot a placeholder point). Each one shows its depth, static water level, tested yield, and a link to the original filed log.

How far back do the records go?

The oldest dated log in our copy was completed in 1920; 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.

Why can't I find a log for my well?

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.

What does a well log actually tell you?

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.

Need every log near one property, in one document?

The property report pulls every recorded well near an address — depths, water levels, yields, drillers , and links to each original filed log — as one printable summary for due diligence.

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