The Oregon Water Resources Department web site allows anyone to find and print well reports via the internet. To start the search you will have to input the township, range, section, and county within which the property is located. The search will generate a table of wells (profile) drilled in that section. A section is one mile square, 640 acres, and may contain dozens, or hundreds of wells. Knowing the street address, tax lot number, or the name of the owner who drilled the well can help narrow the search; however, street address and tax lot were not required information on drillers' well reports until 15-20 years ago, so some table entries may lack that information.

Here are some tips on using the table:

• To view an individual well report, right click on the well log identification number ("Well Log" column) and select "Save Target As" from the menu. You can then save the log to a folder or to the desktop.  From there you can view it and print it.

• Click on the column headings for Depth, Yield, or Completed Date to sort the data by those criteria.

• Use the "Q-QQ" information (second column from the left) to select logs within the same quarter section (160 acres) or quarter-quarter section (40 acres) as the property you are interested in.

Go to the Water Resources Department web site by clicking on their banner below

• At the home page, click on "Access Well Logs" or "GRID-Web".

• At the GRID Query page, enter the search data for township, range, section, and county.

• In the box for "Records per page" you are determining how many well log enteries per page will be shown at one time on your screen.  I suggest altering the default number from "10" to "1000".  This results in a continuous table presentation that can be easily scrolled.

• Click the "Search" button on to begin.

Good Luck!