Active Water Wells in the Ogallala Aquifer Region, Derived from 2022 State Water Well Records

The Ogallala Aquifer (OA) underlies about 170,000 square miles (111 million acres) of Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, including about 1.9 million acres of tribal lands and 2.9 million acres of federal lands. Water from the aquifer is vital to regional aquatic, riparian, range, and agricultural ecosystems. These shapefiles show all active water wells in counties that are included in the Ogallala Aquifer Region. They are current as of June 2022.

This dataset contains one shapefile for each state within the Ogallala Aquifer Region. The shapefiles provide a visualization for the online Ogallala Data Directory.