Stephens County Has No Groundwater Conservation District

Stephens County is part of GMA 6, which is a planning area. On TWDB's GMA 6 page, the listed groundwater districts are Clear Fork, Mesquite, Gateway, Rolling Plains, and Upper Trinity. In TCEQ's GCD map service, a district search for Stephens County returns no GCD.

That does not make wells rule-free. It just means you should not expect a local GCD permit desk to be the first stop. Texas Occupations Code Section 1901.151 says a person may not act as a water-well driller without a license.

For an existing well, ask for any old well report before closing. TCEQ's Water Well Report Viewer maps more than 800,000 historical Texas well reports. Treat the map as a helpful starting point, not a boundary survey.