In Rutland County, Vermont, which covers Wells, we have measured 15,039 parcels on septic and 10,202 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Wells on its own and this page does not estimate one.
Wells is a census-designated place in Rutland County, Vermont. The Census Bureau puts its internal point at 43.418682, -73.212275 and its land area at 0.79 square miles. Septic permitting and record keeping happen at the county level, not the census-designated place level, which is why every figure below is attributed to the county and linked back to the county page it came from.
| County | Records we hold | Parcels on septic | Parcels on sewer | County records portal | Searchable without an account |
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| Rutland County | 40,926 | 15,039 | 10,202 | county portal | no account needed |
We hold 40,926 septic records for Rutland County, Vermont. That is a substantial partial collection rather than a complete one, so a Wells property may or may not appear in it, and the county archive remains the authority. The county is genuinely mixed: 15,039 of 25,241 classified parcels are on septic and the rest are sewered. Which side of that line a Wells address falls on is worth establishing before anything else. The county publishes a records portal that we were able to search without creating an account, which makes checking a specific parcel something you can do yourself in a few minutes.
Septic is one subject with very different jobs inside it. These go straight to the page that does yours.
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No. We measure septic and sewer at parcel level and roll it up by county. In Rutland County, Vermont, which covers Wells, we have measured 15,039 parcels on septic and 10,202 on sewer. That is a county measurement. We do not hold a septic count for Wells on its own and this page does not estimate one.
Wells is in Rutland County, Vermont.
From the Census ZCTA-to-place relationship file, with the share of Wells’s land area that falls in each. A ZIP is not a place boundary and the two only ever partly agree, which is exactly why both pages exist.
Straight-line distance from the Census internal point of Wells.
Parcel Perfect generates a code-shaped septic design and as-built style drawing for a parcel from the records and site data we hold, and shows every parcel we have classified as septic or sewer on one map. Both are open to use for any parcel in Rutland County, Vermont.