Well Drilling Cost Register (US, published prices, October 2026)

A dated, source-cited register of 180 published prices for private water well drilling, casing, pumps, pressure tanks, permits, water testing, inspection, deepening, rehabilitation and abandonment in the United States (180 prices and 1 method note). Every row records what the price covers, the market it applies to, the publisher, a link to the source page, the page's own date, the date it was checked, and the price wording quoted verbatim from the source.

Sources: 58 web pages and documents, including 27 independent businesses plus state and county agencies, university labs and published cost guides. 152 rows are primary (businesses' own prices, government fee schedules, lab fee pages) and 28 are secondary (cost guides, directory profiles). 14 rows are flagged HISTORICAL. Covers 32 states plus national rows. Retrieved Oct 15, 2026. Format: CSV, UTF-8, 20 columns. See DATA-DICTIONARY.md and METHODS.md.

These are published prices, not quotes or completed-job data, and not a representative sample. Don't average across rows; compare rows with the same cost item, scope, unit and geography. The compilation is licensed CC BY 4.0; the figures are third-party facts, so cite the original source.

Compiled by The Well Drilling Guide (thewelldrillingguide.com).