Domestic wells in Edwards County

620 of the 3,879 WWC-5 records in Edwards County — 16.0% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Edwards County holds 0.8% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 1.2% of the register overall — so this use is under-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 Carl Hayse Water Well Service, named on 230 of them (37.1%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (154) and Clarke Well and Equipment, INC (61). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 300 feet — a domestic well drilled by Jack Cline Drilling CO in 1986.

Plugging records — for domestic in Edwards County

52 of the 620 records for domestic in Edwards County carry a plugging report (8.4%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 568 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 401 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 Edwards County?

568 of the 620 records in Edwards 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 3,879 records in Edwards County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Graham 650
• Domestic — Jackson 647
• Domestic — Wabaunsee 638
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Pottawatomie 636
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Phillips 627
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Stafford 622
• Domestic — Decatur 615
• Irrigation — Pratt 613
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kingman 603
• Domestic — Seward 602
• Domestic — Kearny 596