Tennessee Well Data · TDEC
TDEC well records, searchable by address
Every Tennessee well log is filed with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) water well locations database. Those records are public, but they are organized by mapped location and record number — not by street address. We hold 282,596 of them and rebuild the index weekly, so you can start from an address instead.
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Enter any Tennessee address and we return the wells recorded around it — about 62% of Tennessee well records carry a mapped location; the rest are filed with a written description only and are counted in the county figures but cannot be plotted, so treat positions as approximate and coverage as partial.
Free address lookup Full property report — $49What a TDEC 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 282,596 records, so you know what to expect before you search.
| Field | What it tells you | Records with it | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total depth | How deep the hole was drilled, in feet. | 277,677 (98%) | |
| Date completed | When the well was finished and the log filed. | 270,867 (96%) | |
| Tested yield | Gallons per minute the well produced on the driller’s pump test. | 229,389 (81%) | |
| Static water level | How far below the surface the water stood at rest. | 212,435 (75%) | |
| Mapped location | Coordinates, so the log can be found by address instead of by record number. | 174,592 (62%) |
How this differs from going to TDEC directly
Nothing here replaces the official record, and for a single well you already have the record number for, TDEC is the place to go (www.tn.gov/environment/program-areas/wr-water-resources/water-well-program.html). 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. About 62% of Tennessee well records carry a mapped location; the rest are filed with a written description only and are counted in the county figures but cannot be plotted, so treat positions as approximate and coverage as partial.
- The neighbours, not just the well. Buyers and lenders care what depth and yield are normal nearby, which means reading many records at once, not one.
- The same statistics everywhere. Median depth, static water level and yield are computed identically in every county, so two counties can actually be compared. The exact filters are on the methodology page.
TDEC records by county
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Common questions
With TDEC — the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) water well locations database. Every Tennessee 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.tn.gov/environment/program-areas/wr-water-resources/water-well-program.html.
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, about 62% of Tennessee well records carry a mapped location; the rest are filed with a written description only and are counted in the county figures but cannot be plotted, so treat positions as approximate and coverage as partial.
No, and it is not meant to be. This is an independent index built from the data TDEC publishes, rebuilt weekly. For the authoritative copy of any single record, go to TDEC directly. If our copy and the state's ever disagree, the state's is right.
Our current copy holds 282,596 records across 95 counties, with completion dates from 1900 to 2026. That is everything TDEC publishes in its bulk record set as of 2026-09-28. 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 TDEC 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 $49.
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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