It started with a driller who couldn't see the ground

North Carolina has no usable public map of residential wells. Since 2020, drillers there file GW-1 construction records — thousands a year, mostly handwritten — and the knowledge in them stays locked on paper. A working drilling contractor in the Triangle wanted what every driller wants before quoting a hole: what did the wells around this parcel actually do?

So we built the substrate first: 14.7 million well construction records collected from state agencies across 45 states, normalized into one schema, coordinates cleaned, counties reverse-geocoded. Then the tools on top — the depth estimator that answers with a band instead of a shrug, and a permit playbook for all fifty states verified against statutes and live agency portals.

WellsMap is built by Field Elevate Management LLC with a working driller in the loop on every feature. The rule that keeps us honest: statistics come from real records, AI only explains them, and paperwork is prepared — never submitted — by the platform. The person legally responsible files.

What we publish about ourselves

• Where every number comes from — data & methodology
• What the permit pages are and aren't — terms
• How to reach us — contact