Oil Field Water Supply wells in Ford County

402 of the 4,946 WWC-5 records in Ford County — 8.1% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Ford County holds 2.2% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 1.6% 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 Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC, named on 217 of them (54.0%), ahead of Kelly's Water Well Service, INC (41) and Sam's Water Well Service (20). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 320 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC in 2013.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Ford County

67 of the 402 records for oil field water supply in Ford County carry a plugging report (16.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 335 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 207 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?

335 of the 402 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 oil field water supply record in Kansas.

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• Domestic — Rooks 422
• Domestic — Gove 410
• Domestic — Trego 409
• Irrigation — Scott 404
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Coffey 401
• Domestic — Chase 400
• Irrigation — Rice 399
• Irrigation — Sumner 399
• Irrigation — Thomas 399