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How to Find a Texas Groundwater Conservation District

Browse the statewide district release, then use an address to orient property research and verify official boundaries, district identity, and current rules without turning a map point into a jurisdiction conclusion.

Primary official sources: TCEQ and Texas Water Development Board
Directory entries
98
Districts in the public metadata release
80
Official document records
1,934
Districts with reviewed Water Watch records
11
Reviewed board actions
60

Understand the coverage

One statewide directory, distinct evidence levels

The approved public meeting/document metadata release includes district-level records for 80 of the 98 entries. Within those 80, 12 districts have individual document listings totaling 1,934 records. Texas Water Watch separately includes 182 reviewed facts across 11 districts and 60 reviewed board actions from one district.

Identity

98 directory entries

Each row preserves an approved district identity and frozen slug for this release. It does not claim that 98 is a current legal count of active districts.

Source and documents

80 released district records

Approved public source and coverage metadata exist for 80 entries; 12 include individual document records. Coverage differs by district.

Reviewed intelligence

11 fact districts · 1 board-action district

The fact layer contains 182 records across 11 districts. The separate Board actions layer contains 60 Coastal Bend records. Directory or document coverage is not reviewed intelligence.

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Find a Texas groundwater district entry

Search all 98 directory identities in this release. Coverage labels distinguish identity-only entries, approved source metadata, published document records, and the separate reviewed Texas Water Watch collection.

98 district entriesAll districts
Directory identity only

Clear Fork Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Published document recordsReviewed Water Watch · 1 facts

Clearwater Underground Water Conservation District

620 approved public document records

Agendas 158 · Amended agendas 1 · Approved minutes 149 · Board packets 158 · Presentations 1 · Public-hearing notices 71 · Staff reports 82

Current-version records
620
Verified meeting dates
103

Official source last successfully checked

Open official district source (opens in a new tab)Browse reviewed district activityMeeting intelligence · 1 documents
Published document recordsReviewed Water Watch · 29 factsBoard actions · 60

Coastal Bend Groundwater Conservation District

171 approved public document records

Approved minutes 171

Current-version records
171
Verified meeting dates
0

Release note: 171 approved public meeting-record metadata entries are available. Current source monitoring and source freshness are not established by this release.

Open official district source (opens in a new tab)Browse reviewed district activityBrowse district board actionsMeeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Cow Creek Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Duval County Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Gateway Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Glasscock Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Jeff Davis County Underground Water Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Kenedy County Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Lipan-Kickapoo Water Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Live Oak Underground Water Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Llano Estacado Underground Water Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Lone Wolf Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

McMullen Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Menard County Underground Water District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Plateau Underground Water Conservation and Supply District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Red River Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

San Patricio County Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Southern Trinity Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents
Official source metadata publishedReviewed Water Watch · 26 facts

Southwestern Travis County Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelApproved district and official-source metadata are published, but this release includes no individual document records for the district. That coverage limit does not characterize the district's meetings or activity.

Open district research pageOpen official district source (opens in a new tab)Browse reviewed district activityMeeting intelligence · 1 documents
Directory identity only

Terrell County Groundwater Conservation District

Coverage levelThis release includes the district identity only. It makes no claim about the district's meetings, activity, or available official records.

Approved official navigation is not included for this identity-only entry.Meeting intelligence · 1 documents

Texas Water Watch

Browse reviewed groundwater-district activity

The Facts layer can surface production history, permit or limit activity, well identifiers, compliance and enforcement, litigation, DFC planning, and water-level intelligence across 11 districts. A separate Board actions layer contains 60 reviewed Coastal Bend meeting-record summaries.

District-level intelligence is not proof that a record concerns a specific property.

Open Texas Water WatchResearch a property

Primary questionHow can I identify and verify a possible groundwater conservation district for a Texas property without treating an address point or map layer as a controlling jurisdiction determination?

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Start with the organization

GCD versus GMA versus utility or service district

Similar names can describe different entities, planning functions, and boundaries. Identify what kind of organization a source names before using it in the property research record.

GCD

Groundwater conservation district

A locally governed district for managing groundwater supplies within its confirmed boundaries. Its enabling law, management plan, and current rules define the questions that need official verification.

GMA

Groundwater management area

A regional joint-planning area used by districts for groundwater planning. A GMA is not a substitute for identifying the groundwater conservation district, if any, that may apply to the location.

Service

Utility or service district

An entity that supplies water or provides another public service may have a different purpose and boundary. Its name, bill, or service area does not by itself identify the applicable groundwater regulator.

Orient, compare, verify

How to identify a possible GCD from an address

A street address can move an official map to the general area. Complete the workflow with legal-description, survey, county, and district evidence rather than treating the geocoded point as the answer.

  1. 1. Gather property identifiers.Keep the street address, county, legal description, survey or abstract references, appraisal identifier, and any reliable boundary materials together. The address is an orientation aid.
  2. 2. Open the official district source.Use the approved TCEQ boundary source record to reach the official layer and record its title, displayed update information, and access date.
  3. 3. Record the candidate district.Write the district name exactly as displayed and note whether the property location appears inside, outside, or close to a boundary. Preserve uncertainty instead of rounding the point into a result.
  4. 4. Compare controlling property evidence.Compare the mapped orientation with the county, legal description, current survey, district boundary descriptions, and other official property evidence available for the question.
  5. 5. Verify uncertainty with the district.Use the district’s official site or TCEQ contact list to locate the current contact pathway. Supply the identifiers the district requests and record the response without enlarging it into a title or legal conclusion.
Why an address point is not a controlling boundary determination

A geocoded address can fall at a road, driveway, structure, parcel center, or approximate location. District layers can also be informational rather than survey-grade. Neither the point nor a nearby polygon proves which side of a legal boundary contains the relevant property or well.

Keep close calls unresolved

What to do near a district boundary

A close map result needs more evidence, not greater zoom alone. Preserve the location question and ask the official district to address the identifiers it uses.

Compare sources

  • Record the official layer, map, or viewer and its date.
  • Compare county, legal-description, survey, and appraisal information.
  • Look for boundary descriptions in official district or legislative materials.
  • Record disagreements between a point, parcel depiction, and district layer.

How to verify with the district

  • Locate the official district website through TCEQ or TWDB.
  • Use the published district contact pathway; do not rely on an unverified directory.
  • Ask what property identifiers and current boundary material the district uses.
  • Record the date, source, response, remaining uncertainty, and next question.

Stop condition: If official sources conflict or the district cannot resolve the location from the available identifiers, record boundary confidence as unresolved and identify the property or professional evidence still needed.

Read the current local materials

What district rules may cover

Groundwater conservation districts are locally governed, and the applicable topics, definitions, exemptions, forms, and procedures must be checked in the candidate district’s current official materials.

Registration

Whether a well or owner must be registered, when registration occurs, and which district form or record applies.

Permitting

Whether a proposed activity requires an application, permit, amendment, transfer, or other district action.

Exempt wells

How the district currently defines and documents an exemption, including any continuing registration, reporting, or other duties.

Spacing

Current location or spacing standards and the evidence the district uses when reviewing a well site.

Production

Production limits, operating conditions, or other quantity-related requirements stated in current district materials.

Metering

Whether a meter is required, which specifications apply, and how readings must be retained or supplied.

Reporting

Which production, use, ownership, status, or other reports are required and when they are due.

Plugging

District procedures or records relevant to abandoned, deteriorated, or plugged wells, alongside other applicable official requirements.

Do not transfer a rule from one district to another.

The Coastal Bend GCD source page demonstrates how an approved district-specific route can lead to official rules, forms, notices, meetings, and public-record navigation. It is not a statewide rule source or proof that Coastal Bend GCD applies to another property.

Find the record behind the result

How to locate district plans, contacts, and records

Use current official pathways and record what was actually available. A district name without its plan, rules, forms, or response is only the beginning of the research.

Management plan

Locate the district management plan

Start with the TWDB conservation-district page, which routes to individual district information and management plans. Then compare the plan shown by TWDB with the district’s current official publications.

Official contact

Locate district contact information

Use the current TCEQ district contact list or the official district website reached through an agency source. Record the page and access date because staff, addresses, and procedures can change.

District records

Locate district records

Review the official site for rules, forms, permits or registration pathways, meeting materials, notices, and public-information instructions. If a record is not posted, follow the district’s current official public-record process.

Interpret absence narrowly

What “no district shown” does and does not mean

It means only that the source, layers, location method, and date you recorded did not display a district for the searched point or area. It does not prove that no groundwater conservation district applies, that a boundary has not changed, or that no groundwater regulation, registration, permit, reporting, spacing, plugging, or other requirement exists.

  1. Confirm the source and layer.Make sure the current official district layer—not a GMA, utility, service area, or unrelated boundary—was selected.
  2. Check the location evidence.Compare the address point with the county, legal description, survey, and the location of the well or proposed activity.
  3. Record the negative result.Save the source name, access date, area checked, layer status, and wording used. Do not rewrite it as “no regulation.”
  4. Escalate uncertainty.Use TCEQ, TWDB, the possible district, and an appropriate Texas professional when the boundary or regulatory question remains material.

Carry the evidence forward

How to record the result in the TREC research assistant

The assistant organizes known information and unresolved research. It does not select a Form 61-0 answer or convert a candidate district into a jurisdiction determination.

Record

  • Candidate district name
  • Official source and date viewed
  • Property identifiers used
  • Boundary confidence
  • Rules, plan, forms, and district records reviewed

Keep unresolved

  • Near-boundary or conflicting-source results
  • Unverified exemption, registration, or permit status
  • Missing legal-description or survey evidence
  • Unanswered district questions
  • Professional-review flags
Open the TREC Form 61-0 research guide

Printable evidence record

District-Verification Checklist

Use one checklist for each property research question. Leave blanks and conflicts visible rather than converting them into assumptions.

Property or research labelCounty
Source viewed
Official map, layer, district page, plan, rules, or record pathway
Date viewed
Record the access date for every source used
Candidate district
Name exactly as shown; leave unresolved if sources conflict
Boundary confidence
Inside, outside, near boundary, conflicting sources, or unresolved
District contacted
Date and official contact pathway used, if verification was requested
Current rules reviewed
Rule edition, effective date, management plan, forms, and notices checked
Registration or permit questions
Well status, claimed exemption, filing, transfer, meter, reporting, or other questions
Open issues
Missing property evidence, conflicting boundaries, unanswered district questions, or professional-review flags
Verification boundary

This checklist documents sources, candidate routing, and unresolved questions. It does not determine jurisdiction, exemption, permitting, compliance, ownership, or the legal effect of district rules.

Research boundary

What this page cannot establish

  • A mailing address, geocoded address point, district layer, nearby boundary, or map result is not a legally controlling or survey-grade jurisdiction determination.
  • A candidate district must be checked against current official district and agency information; district boundaries, rules, forms, and procedures may change after the displayed source-review date.
  • No district shown in one source does not prove that no groundwater conservation district or other groundwater requirement applies.
  • This guide does not determine jurisdiction, permitting, exemption status, compliance, ownership, title, or the legal effect of district rules or property documents.

Source record

Official sources checked

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Groundwater Conservation Districts

Official TCEQ district page with current map, contact, and groundwater-district information pathways.Reviewed

Texas Water Development Board

Groundwater Conservation Districts

Official TWDB district page for groundwater management plans, district information, and district contact pathways.Reviewed

Continue the research

Official groundwater-district source familyUse the statewide boundary source for orientation, then continue to the relevant district's official records pathway.Read this guide →TREC Form 61-0 research guideCarry the candidate district, sources checked, boundary confidence, and unresolved rule questions into the independent disclosure-research workflow.Read this guide →How to find Texas water well recordsSearch official well-record systems and compare candidate reports without treating a point, name, or nearby record as proof about a parcel.Read this guide →Research methodologySee how the project separates sources, candidate matches, uncertainty, and professional-review questions.Read this guide →Independent-service disclaimerReview the educational, independent-service, source, jurisdiction, and professional boundaries that apply to this guide.Read this guide →TCEQ Groundwater Conservation District BoundariesOfficial TCEQ ArcGIS source for informational groundwater-conservation-district boundary and district-routing context.Review the source record →Coastal Bend Groundwater Conservation DistrictOfficial district source for local rules, meetings, forms, notices, and public-record navigation.Review the source record →

This guide follows the Texas Water Sources research methodology and the independent-service disclaimer. Official agency and district records remain authoritative, and unresolved jurisdiction or property questions remain unresolved.