Domestic, Livestock wells in Marion County

543 of the 2,513 WWC-5 records in Marion County — 21.6% — are recorded for domestic, livestock.

How this group compares

Marion County holds 3.1% of the 17,552 domestic, livestock records in Kansas, while holding 0.8% of the register overall — so this use is over-represented here.

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What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Backhus Well Drilling, LLC, named on 143 of them (26.3%), ahead of Backhus Drilling (96) and Backhus Well Drlg (78). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 175 feet — a domestic, livestock well drilled by William Schimpf Water Well Drilling in 1980.

Plugging records — for domestic, livestock in Marion County

13 of the 543 records for domestic, livestock in Marion County carry a plugging report (2.4%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 530 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 Marion County?

530 of the 543 records in Marion 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 2,513 records in Marion County, and every domestic, livestock record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Rawlins 587
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ellsworth 565
• Irrigation — Ford 561
• Environmental Remediation, Injection — Sedgwick 547
• Domestic — Kiowa 546
• Irrigation — Meade 545
• Irrigation — Grant 529
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rooks 528
• Domestic — Lincoln 526
• Domestic, Livestock — Edwards 521
• Domestic — Jefferson 521