Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Ellis County

1,701 of the 5,546 WWC-5 records in Ellis County — 30.7% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Ellis County holds 2.0% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 1.8% of the register overall — so this use is over-represented here.

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What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Geocore Services INC, named on 241 of them (14.2%), ahead of Geocore, INC (200) and Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC (137). The oldest record here was completed in 1981 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 557 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Karst Water Well Drilling & Service, INC in 1993.

Plugging records — for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Ellis County

579 of the 1,701 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Ellis County carry a plugging report (34.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 1,122 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 340 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?

1,122 of the 1,701 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 monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Mcpherson 1,939
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Harvey 1,872
• Domestic — Butler 1,868
• Domestic, Livestock — Reno 1,854
• Domestic — Mcpherson 1,782
• Oil Field Water Supply — Pratt 1,774
• Irrigation — Finney 1,668
• Domestic — Dickinson 1,646
• Domestic — Ellis 1,623
• Domestic — Ford 1,575
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ford 1,492