Domestic wells in Kiowa County

546 of the 2,662 WWC-5 records in Kiowa County — 20.5% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Kiowa County holds 0.7% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.8% of the register overall — so this use is under-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 Carl Hayse Water Well Service, named on 283 of them (51.8%), ahead of Crowdis Water Well Service, LLC (34) and Cornie Friesen Windmill and Supply CO (26). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 260 feet — a domestic well drilled by Carl Hayse Water Well Service in 1997.

Plugging records — for domestic in Kiowa County

62 of the 546 records for domestic in Kiowa County carry a plugging report (11.4%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 484 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 295 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 Kiowa County?

484 of the 546 records in Kiowa 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 2,662 records in Kiowa County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Seward 602
• Domestic — Kearny 596
• Domestic — Rawlins 587
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ellsworth 565
• Irrigation — Ford 561
• Environmental Remediation, Injection — Sedgwick 547
• Irrigation — Meade 545
• Domestic, Livestock — Marion 543
• Irrigation — Grant 529
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rooks 528
• Domestic — Lincoln 526