Water wells in Barton County

8,264 WWC-5 records — 2.6% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 50 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Barton County

This is what a buyer or a builder actually wants, and the Survey does not publish it as a figure you can look up. The numbers below are medians over the records where a figure was reported — a mean would be carried away by a few deep irrigation wells.

What the water is used for

Wells tied to a water right

1,486 records in Barton County carry a DWR appropriation number — 18.0%, against 11.0% statewide. A well permit and a water right are separate instruments in Kansas, and the appropriation number is the thread back to the Division of Water Resources.

What stands out in Barton County

The busiest contractor on these records is Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC, named on 1,820 of them (22.0%), ahead of Kelly's Water Well Service, INC (1,575) and Clarke Well and Equipment, INC (786). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 372 feet — a domestic, livestock well drilled by Clarke Well and Equipment, INC in 2013.

Plugging records — in Barton County

2,003 of the 8,264 records in Barton County carry a plugging report (24.2%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 6,261 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 2,959 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Barton County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Barton County?

6,261 of the 8,264 records in Barton 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.

Records in Barton County

By water use in Barton County

• Dewatering in Barton County 156
• Domestic in Barton County 1,969
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden in Barton County 663
• Domestic, Livestock in Barton County 440
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge in Barton County 353
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction in Barton County 203
• Irrigation in Barton County 514
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Barton County 2,469
• Oil Field Water Supply in Barton County 1,212

Counties with a comparable register

• Sedgwick 74,710
• Reno 18,579
• Butler 8,187
• Saline 7,612
• Harvey 7,116
• Stafford 6,530
• Mcpherson 6,180
• Wyandotte 6,002
• Johnson 5,602
• Ellis 5,546
• Finney 5,476
• Pratt 5,098
• Ford 4,946

Neighbours by the size of their register, not a ranking: the list slides with the county, so each of the 100 county pages is reachable from the others. All of them.