Inside Weatherford's city limits most homes are on city water. Step past the city line, onto the acreage along FM 51, Zion Hill Road, Veal Station Road or the Mineral Wells Highway, and nearly every house runs on its own well. Drillers reported 590 new household wells within about six miles of downtown Weatherford between January 2021 and September 2026.
Those wells have a median depth of 240 feet, with the middle half between 200 and 340 ft. Water stands about 110 ft down once the well is finished, and pumps are typically set around 200 ft. Across the whole county, drillers filed 1,287 new household well reports in 2022, the most of any year in the state's online driller-report database, which goes back to 2001.
The Upper Trinity Groundwater Conservation District regulates new wells in Parker County. On August 27, 2026 it adopted a 5-acre minimum for new subdivisions in western Parker County, where the Trinity aquifer is 60 ft thick or less, and wider spacing district-wide: 100 ft from property lines and 300 ft from other wells. Both take effect January 1, 2027. Read what the 2027 rules mean for your lot.