Domestic wells in Ellis County

1,623 of the 5,546 WWC-5 records in Ellis County — 29.3% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Ellis County holds 2.1% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 1.8% 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 John E. Luea Water Well Drilling, named on 415 of them (25.6%), ahead of Karst Water Well Drilling & Service, INC (402) and Keith Pfannenstiel Water Well Service (143). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 620 feet — a domestic well drilled by Pratt Well Service, INC in 2011.

Plugging records — for domestic in Ellis County

225 of the 1,623 records for domestic in Ellis County carry a plugging report (13.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 1,398 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 685 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 Ellis County?

1,398 of the 1,623 records in Ellis 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 5,546 records in Ellis County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic, Livestock — Reno 1,854
• Domestic — Mcpherson 1,782
• Oil Field Water Supply — Pratt 1,774
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ellis 1,701
• Irrigation — Finney 1,668
• Domestic — Dickinson 1,646
• Domestic — Ford 1,575
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ford 1,492
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge — Sedgwick 1,488
• Domestic — Finney 1,419
• Domestic — Riley 1,377