Oil Field Water Supply wells in Barber County

308 of the 1,835 WWC-5 records in Barber County — 16.8% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Barber County holds 1.7% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 0.6% of the register overall — so this use is over-represented here.

water for drilling and production. Not a supply anyone drinks from, and it explains clusters of wells where there are few houses.

What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Kelly's Water Well Service, INC, named on 119 of them (38.6%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (54) and Central Well & Pump, INC (31). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 178 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Kelly's Water Well Service, INC in 1977.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Barber County

43 of the 308 records for oil field water supply in Barber County carry a plugging report (14.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 265 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 190 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?

265 of the 308 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 oil field water supply record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Russell 317
• Irrigation — Kiowa 314
• Oil Field Water Supply — Haskell 312
• Domestic — Republic 312
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Scott 312
• Domestic, Livestock — Dickinson 309
• Oil Field Water Supply — Clark 307
• Irrigation — Rush 307
• Dewatering — Reno 304
• Domestic — Wichita 298
• Domestic, Livestock — Norton 287