Domestic wells in Hamilton County

237 of the 854 WWC-5 records in Hamilton County — 27.8% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Hamilton County holds 0.3% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.3% 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 67 of them (28.3%), ahead of Donald Fulton Drilling CO (23) and Well Owner (20). The oldest record here was completed in 1973 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 1030 feet — a domestic well drilled by Joe's Well Service, INC in 2008.

Plugging records — for domestic in Hamilton County

62 of the 237 records for domestic in Hamilton County carry a plugging report (26.2%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 175 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 63 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 Hamilton County?

175 of the 237 records in Hamilton 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 854 records in Hamilton County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic, Livestock — Ford 240
• Oil Field Water Supply — Graham 240
• Oil Field Water Supply — Sheridan 240
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Morton 238
• Domestic — Osage 238
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Trego 238
• Domestic — Stanton 236
• Domestic, Livestock — Cheyenne 234
• Domestic, Livestock — Cloud 234
• Irrigation — Republic 234
• Domestic — Atchison 231