Oil Field Water Supply wells in Decatur County

187 of the 1,348 WWC-5 records in Decatur County — 13.9% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Decatur County holds 1.0% 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 Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC, named on 77 of them (41.2%), ahead of Woofter Pump and Well, INC (56) and Woofter Pump & Well, INC (24). The oldest record here was completed in 1982 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 255 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Woofter Pump & Well #881 in 2022.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Decatur County

45 of the 187 records for oil field water supply in Decatur County carry a plugging report (24.1%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 142 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 11 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 Decatur County?

142 of the 187 records in Decatur 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 1,348 records in Decatur County, and every oil field water supply record in Kansas.

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