BLUE SKY COUNTRYREAL ESTATE
BLUE SKY COUNTRYREAL ESTATE
Navarro County, Texas
On most rural tracts the first question isn’t price. It’s whether water can get there, from whom, how long the wait runs and what the tap costs. 17 utilities hold certificated area inside this county, and the ground under them changes from one road to the next.
The first question
A certificate of convenience and necessity, a CCN, gives one utility the right and the duty to serve inside a drawn boundary. It settles who has to answer. It doesn’t say a line runs past the gate, that the line carries pressure at that elevation, or that the system has a meter to sell this year. Those are three separate answers, and on the same road they can come back different.
Who holds the ground, and therefore who has to answer a written request for service availability.
Where the nearest line actually runs, what it delivers uphill, what a tap costs, and how long the wait has been lately.
Ask the utility for a service availability letter naming the tract. A yes over the counter is worth nothing at closing.
Send an address or a dropped pin and get back the certificate holder at that point, the soil series under it, and what the wells nearby were actually completed into. The query runs at the tract, not at the county: two listings ten miles apart in the same town sit on different soil and buy water from different people. Email the address.
Who holds service area here
Read from the state certificate layer against the county boundary and checked 13 September 2026. Telephone numbers come from the federal drinking-water record for each system. Connection counts are the whole system, most of it outside this county for the larger ones, and the square miles are inside the county only.
903-874-4821 · surface water · 1,078 connections in all
about 163 square miles inside the county
254-578-1618 · surface water · 1,675 connections in all
about 106 square miles inside the county
903-872-1899 · surface water · 2,020 connections in all
about 68 square miles inside the county
903-654-4803 · surface water · 26,766 connections in all
about 36 square miles inside the county
903-879-1563 · surface water · 3,389 connections in all
about 26 square miles inside the county
903-599-9096 · surface water · 448 connections in all
about 25 square miles inside the county
254-576-1333 · surface water · 1,039 connections in all
about 22 square miles inside the county
903-874-6773 · surface water · 402 connections in all
about 17 square miles inside the county
903-362-3707 · surface water · 340 connections in all
about 14 square miles inside the county
903-389-9644 · groundwater · 616 connections in all
about 10 square miles inside the county
no telephone number in the federal record; ask and I’ll chase it
about 5 square miles inside the county
972-483-6885 · groundwater · 589 connections in all
about 4 square miles inside the county
903-695-2711 · surface water · 444 connections in all
about 4 square miles inside the county
no telephone number in the federal record; ask and I’ll chase it
about 4 square miles inside the county
903-396-2971 · surface water · 638 connections in all
about 4 square miles inside the county
no telephone number in the federal record; ask and I’ll chase it
about 1 square mile inside the county
Certificate not final: pending final order docket no. 54341. Worth asking about before counting on it.
682-201-8194 · surface water · 253 connections in all
about 1 square mile inside the county
4 more certificates clip the county line without covering ground worth listing here. Tap fees and wait times aren’t published by anybody and aren’t the same twice: those take a call about the specific tract, and the answer is only good for that tract.
The other way
A well isn’t a general substitute for a meter in this county, and the state records say so rather than anybody having to take a broker’s word for it. Most of what has been completed here is shallow and thin. The Woodbine, the aquifer people have usually heard of, is over a thousand feet down.
51 wells on record, median 30 feet deep, from 10 to 61.
32 wells on record, median 27 feet deep, from 19 to 50.
29 wells on record, median 119 feet deep, from 20 to 269.
23 wells on record, median 24 feet deep, from 11 to 99.
19 wells on record, median 28 feet deep, from 11 to 70.
19 wells on record, median 38 feet deep, from 15 to 163.
18 wells on record, median 24 feet deep, from 6 to 37.
17 wells on record, median 1,650 feet deep, from 900 to 3,225.
Modern driller’s reports agree from the other end. Of 564 reports filed in this county most are monitor wells and environmental soil borings. Take those out and 117 are somebody’s domestic well: median 80 feet, three in four under 150 feet, one in ten past 240. Leaving the borings in puts the median near thirty feet, which is how a wrong number reaches a page.
Navarro County sits in no groundwater conservation district. Three districts run up to the county line and none of them covers it, tested against the county boundary rather than a sample point. That means no district permit and no district production limit. The driller still has to be licensed by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, the well still has to be completed to state standard, and the report is filed with the Texas Water Development Board, which is where these numbers come from.
Surface water
A stock tank, a pond and a creek are worth having, and none of them is drinking water. A tank is livestock and wildlife water and a place to fish. Turning one into household supply is a project with a treatment system attached, not a feature of the listing.
A creek crossing a tract carries no right to take water out of it. Surface water in Texas belongs to the state and diverting it takes a water right. The broad exception is a dam or pit on your own land for domestic and livestock use, capped at 200 acre feet, Texas Water Code Section 11.142. Past that, or for any commercial use, the permit is the whole question and it’s worth settling before the money moves.
Tell me the tract and what it has to do, a house, a barn, cattle, a shop. Back comes who holds the certificate, what the utility says when asked in writing, and what the ground says about a well. Email reaches me fastest, and I answer it myself. If you call and get voicemail, leave a message and I’ll call you back.
Call (903) 695-2978 · Email what you have · Building on rural land · Navarro County, the land · What your land will carry
Sources, all public and all re-checkable: TCEQ Drinking Water Watch · TWDB groundwater data · TWDB mapping · TDLR water well drillers · Texas Water Code Chapter 11
General information, not engineering or legal advice. The utility and a licensed driller are the authority on a given tract. Checked 13 September 2026.
The survey, the appraisal-district notice, a couple of photos. Whatever is in hand. Email reaches me fastest, and I answer it myself. If you call and get voicemail, leave a message and I’ll call you back.
Call (903) 695-2978 · robert@blueskycountry.com
205 S Fordyce, Blooming Grove, Texas 76626 · by appointment. Robert Phipps, Broker · TREC #0460512.