Well water in Love County, Oklahoma
No public well test results have been compiled for Love County yet. The USGS national arsenic model estimates that 4% of the 106 people on private wells there draw water with arsenic above 10 ug/L, the EPA limit, based on geology, well depth and land use rather than local tests.
The strongest signal is coliform bacteria: Recommended for every private well, every year, too few samples to carry the headline but first on the test list below.
7 test results across 3 contaminants from at least 3 wells, 1948 to 2001; nitrate has the most at 3. Data refreshed September 15, 2026.
Compiled by Nick at Well Water Nerd from public records. How these pages are built
Data confidence: estimate. No state program or federal monitoring data for Love County has been compiled here yet, so the arsenic figure is the USGS national model, not a measurement. Treat a high estimate as a reason to test, not as your well's number. Measured results are added as states publish them.
An estimated 106 people in Love County get their drinking water from a private well, per USGS 2015 county water use. That is about 1% of residents.
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See the sampled wells near your address
The same records, drawn around one point: which wells within a few miles were sampled and what they found, how deep the wells next to you were drilled, and any leaking tank or cleanup site within a mile.
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Among contaminants with a federal limit, no tested sample in Love County came back above it. That is reassuring, but sampling is uneven: wells that were never tested are not in this data.
Chloride is widespread in local groundwater. It is mainly a staining and taste problem, but high manganese also carries a health advisory for infants.
What to test for in Love County
- 1Coliform bacteriaRecommended for every private well, every year.
- 2NitrateRecommended for every private well, especially near farms or septic systems.
- 3FluorideDetected in 100% of local samples.
- 4ChlorideDetected in 100% of local samples.
Test your Love County well for coliform bacteria, nitrate and fluoride
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Where to get a well tested in Oklahoma: certified labs, state programs and prices.
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Wells in Love County
319 domestic wells in Love County are on record with the state since 1984. the typical well is 129 feet deep (one in ten goes past 280 feet).
In a typical Love County well, the median yield is 15 gallons per minute, 1% of wells yield under 3 gallons per minute and usually need a storage tank.
Find your own well's report
The state keeps the driller's report for most wells drilled since 1984. It tells you how deep your well is, where bedrock starts, and how much water it makes, which decides what treatment can work.
- Open OWRB well log search and choose Water Well.
- It lists depth, first water, yield and the driller.
Oklahoma has required well logs since 1972.
The rock under Love County
Edwards-Trinity aquifer system
Sandstone and carbonate-rock. Layered sandstone and limestone means a well may draw from either. Hardness and iron are routine, and the limestone layers can carry bacteria and nitrate from the surface quickly, so test for both yearly.
Classification from the USGS Principal Aquifers of the United States (national map, 2003 edition, GIS release 2015), read at the county centroid. A single well can sit in a different unit, especially near a boundary.
Official help in Oklahoma
Two places to start that are not selling anything: the state program that answers private well questions, and its list of labs certified to run drinking water tests. A certified lab is the difference between a result you can act on and a number.
- Technical Assistance (private citizen well water testing), Oklahoma DEQ
- Laboratory Accreditation, Oklahoma DEQ
Contamination sources on record in Love County
Oklahoma DEQ land sites records 1 regulated sites in Love County, among 1 regulated sites in total. Groundwater does not follow property lines, so a well within a few hundred feet of one of these is worth testing for what that site could release.
- 1
- other solid waste facility
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No water treatment company serves Love County through Well Water Nerd yet. We are signing licensed companies on county by county: they test at your tap for free, walk you through the numbers, and quote treatment only if something needs fixing. Leave your details and you are first in line. Nothing is shared until a company joins for Love County, and you get an email naming it first.
Common questions
How deep are wells in Love County?
The typical domestic well in Love County is 129 feet deep, based on 319 wells reported to the state since 1984. One in ten is deeper than 280 feet.
How often should I test a private well in Love County?
Test for bacteria and nitrate every year. Test once for arsenic, uranium, radon, fluoride, manganese and PFAS, then again every three to five years or after any change in taste, color, or plumbing.
Counties near Love County
Closest first. Groundwater does not stop at a line on a map, so the next county over is a fair second opinion.
Want the numbers themselves? Download the Oklahoma dataset as CSV, every county and town, with the sources named.
Sources
- USGS Water Quality Portal: 7 samples in Love County. Data from the Water Quality Portal, a service of USGS, EPA and USDA; groundwater samples collected by USGS and cooperators. Retrieved September 3, 2026.
- USGS national arsenic model (Ayotte 2017): estimated share of 106 people on private wells in Love County above 10 ug/L of arsenic, from geology, well depth and land use. County estimates of domestic well users with arsenic above 10 ug/L from the USGS national logistic regression model (Ayotte, Medalie and Qi, 2017), with private well population from the USGS 2015 county water-use compilation (Dieter and others, 2018). Retrieved September 15, 2026.
- Oklahoma OWRB reported well logs: 604 well records in Love County, 319 domestic. Well completion reports filed with the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, located by public land survey. Only aggregates are shown; owner names and addresses are never stored. Retrieved .
- Oklahoma DEQ land sites: 1 regulated sites located in Love County. Superfund sites, voluntary cleanup sites and solid waste facilities from the Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality. Retrieved September 18, 2026.
Non-detects count as samples and are treated as zero when computing medians. Exactly at the limit counts as not above it. A sample belongs to the town containing the well's reported coordinates.