Domestic wells in Barber County

652 of the 1,835 WWC-5 records in Barber County — 35.5% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Barber County holds 0.8% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.6% of the register overall — so this use is over-represented here.

water for a household. The commonest use on the register by a wide margin, and the one most likely to sit under a property somebody is buying.

What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Dean L. Lyman, INC, named on 418 of them (64.1%), ahead of Crowdis Water Well Service, LLC (22) and Hank Bruse Water Well Service (17). The oldest record here was completed in 1971 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 250 feet — a domestic well drilled by Lehl & Son Water Well Drilling in 1984.

Plugging records — for domestic in Barber County

34 of the 652 records for domestic in Barber County carry a plugging report (5.2%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 618 do not.

That is not a list of abandoned wells, and this site never calls them that. Kansas defines abandonment by use — a well unused for two years — and nothing in this register tracks use. What the absence of a plugging report does mean is that the State has never been told the well was sealed. On the 332 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drilled them

An unplugged well on land in Barber County?

618 of the 652 records in Barber County have no plugging report on file. If a well on your land is no longer used, Kansas requires it to be plugged and the duty falls on the landowner — with cost-share of up to USD 1,000 per well through the Kansas Department of Agriculture. This site reads the register; it does not drill and it does not plug. Tell us where and we pass the request to licensed Kansas well contractors.

We recommend no contractor and we are nobody's agent. We have no arrangement with any firm today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

The records

Part of a bigger picture: all 1,835 records in Barber County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Lyon 675
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Barton 663
• Domestic — Meade 663
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Sumner 659
• Oil Field Water Supply — Pawnee 658
• Domestic — Geary 653
• Domestic, Livestock — Stafford 652
• Domestic — Graham 650
• Domestic — Jackson 647
• Domestic — Wabaunsee 638
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Pottawatomie 636