Oil Field Water Supply wells in Comanche County

167 of the 1,131 WWC-5 records in Comanche County — 14.8% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Comanche County holds 0.9% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 0.4% 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 42 of them (25.1%), ahead of Central Well & Pump, INC (28) and Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (17). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2019, and the deepest well on file reaches 300 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Howard Drilling Company Ag, LLC in 2011.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Comanche County

13 of the 167 records for oil field water supply in Comanche County carry a plugging report (7.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 154 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 117 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?

154 of the 167 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 oil field water supply record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• (unstated)/abandoned — Reno 176
• Domestic, Livestock — Ellis 175
• Irrigation — Pottawatomie 174
• Domestic, Livestock — Smith 173
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Wabaunsee 173
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Wyandotte 173
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Ford 166
• Domestic, Livestock — Decatur 163
• Oil Field Water Supply — Gray 163
• Oil Field Water Supply — Mcpherson 162
• Public Water Supply — Sedgwick 162