How we verify

Texas Well Drillers is compiled from public records, not from who paid to be listed.

Sources

• TDLR All Licenses file (data.texas.gov 7358-krk7) — Every license issued by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, including Water Well Driller/Pump Installer licenses with phone, county and expiration date.
• TWDB Submitted Driller's Reports database — The State Well Reports and plugging reports Texas drillers submit, published by the Texas Water Development Board as a bulk download (SDRDownload.zip), including the driller's license number, company, county, proposed use and depth.
• TDLR license search — The state's own license lookup — use it to confirm a license before you sign.

We download every row in the TDLR license file where the license type is Water Well Driller/Pump Installer and keep licenses that expire on or after the day we checked. Expired licenses are left out — we never label a named driller as unlicensed.

We then load the Texas Water Development Board's full Submitted Driller's Reports download and match each well report and plugging report to a driller by the license number printed on the report. For every licensed driller we count reports for work completed in the last five years, by proposed use (domestic, irrigation, stock, public supply, industrial, monitoring, geothermal) and by county, and take the median depth of their water wells from the reported bore-hole depths.

A "water well" count covers domestic, irrigation, livestock and public-supply wells. Monitoring wells and environmental borings are counted separately. A driller who appears on no recent report is still listed; many licensees mainly install and repair pumps, which do not generate a well report.

The town shown is the business address in the TDLR file or, where TDLR has none, the driller address on their most recent well report. The company name is the one most often written on the driller's recent reports.

Order within a town: most water wells reported in the last five years first. Featured listings appear in a separate, labelled box and never change that order.

What a badge means

TDLR license active: the driller appears in the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation license file as a Water Well Driller/Pump Installer with an expiration date on or after the day we checked. We only publish positive matches. A listing without a badge is not an accusation — most gaps are name variations between registries.

Freshness

Data was last refreshed on 2026-09-30. TDLR updates its license file daily and TWDB updates the driller's report download regularly; we re-pull both weekly.

Corrections

Email sabrsystemssoftware@gmail.com or claim your listing on the for-business page. We fix verified errors within two business days.