Domestic wells in Ford County

1,575 of the 4,946 WWC-5 records in Ford County — 31.8% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Ford County holds 2.0% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 1.6% 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 Joe's Well Service, INC, named on 414 of them (26.3%), ahead of Ed Jantzen Water Well Repair (198) and Merle Cragg Water Well Drlg (135). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 685 feet — a domestic well drilled by Nash Water Well Service, LLC in 2013.

Plugging records — for domestic in Ford County

210 of the 1,575 records for domestic in Ford County carry a plugging report (13.3%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 1,365 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 716 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 Ford County?

1,365 of the 1,575 records in Ford 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 4,946 records in Ford County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• 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 — Ellis 1,623
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ford 1,492
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge — Sedgwick 1,488
• Domestic — Finney 1,419
• Domestic — Riley 1,377
• Domestic — Harvey 1,352