Domestic wells in Comanche County

369 of the 1,131 WWC-5 records in Comanche County — 32.6% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Comanche County holds 0.5% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.4% 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 Ronald Lehl's Water Well Service, named on 217 of them (58.8%), ahead of Dean L. Lyman, INC (38) and Bartel Well Drilling, INC (22). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 280 feet — a domestic well drilled by Associated Drilling, INC in 2007.

Plugging records — for domestic in Comanche County

105 of the 369 records for domestic in Comanche County carry a plugging report (28.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 264 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 114 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 Comanche County?

264 of the 369 records in Comanche 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 1,131 records in Comanche County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Finney 381
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge — Reno 379
• Domestic — Montgomery 373
• Domestic, Livestock — Clark 372
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Barber 371
• Domestic, Livestock — Rush 371
• Domestic, Livestock — Rice 367
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Sherman 367
• Irrigation — Hodgeman 360
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge — Barton 353
• Domestic, Livestock — Mcpherson 351