Oil Field Water Supply wells in Lane County

176 of the 958 WWC-5 records in Lane County — 18.4% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Lane County holds 1.0% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 0.3% 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 Kelly's Water Well Service, INC, named on 31 of them (17.6%), ahead of Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC (30) and Woofter Pump & Well, INC (27). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 210 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Kelly's Water Well Service, INC in 1975.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Lane County

36 of the 176 records for oil field water supply in Lane County carry a plugging report (20.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 140 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 81 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 Lane County?

140 of the 176 records in Lane 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 958 records in Lane County, and every oil field water supply record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Haskell 182
• Domestic — Greeley 181
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Lincoln 181
• Domestic, Livestock — Sedgwick 181
• Irrigation — Wallace 179
• (unstated)/abandoned — Butler 176
• (unstated)/abandoned — Reno 176
• Domestic, Livestock — Ellis 175
• Irrigation — Pottawatomie 174
• Domestic, Livestock — Smith 173
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Wabaunsee 173