Domestic wells in Grant County

476 of the 1,571 WWC-5 records in Grant County — 30.3% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Grant County holds 0.6% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.5% 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 Gerald Houck Bros. Drilling CO, named on 117 of them (24.6%), ahead of Destal Tyler Water Well Service (64) and Howard Drilling Company Ag, LLC (39). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 700 feet — a domestic well drilled by Nash Ww Srvc in 2023.

Plugging records — for domestic in Grant County

45 of the 476 records for domestic in Grant County carry a plugging report (9.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 431 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 220 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 Grant County?

431 of the 476 records in Grant 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 1,571 records in Grant County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Stevens 520
• Irrigation — Barton 514
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Thomas 511
• Domestic — Haskell 508
• Domestic — Cowley 485
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Smith 478
• Irrigation — Seward 471
• Domestic — Clark 469
• Domestic — Cloud 469
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Cherokee 466
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Atchison 457