Domestic wells in Marion County

856 of the 2,513 WWC-5 records in Marion County — 34.1% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Marion County holds 1.1% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.8% 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 Backhus Drilling, named on 359 of them (41.9%), ahead of Paul H. Backhus Drilling (148) and Zinn Water Well Drlg (89). The oldest record here was completed in 1973 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 155 feet — a domestic well drilled by Charles Winter Well Drilling in 2003.

Plugging records — for domestic in Marion County

66 of the 856 records for domestic in Marion County carry a plugging report (7.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 790 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 476 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?

790 of the 856 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 record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Sedgwick 954
• Domestic — Shawnee 944
• Domestic — Franklin 934
• Domestic — Pratt 914
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Geary 900
• Irrigation — Edwards 879
• Domestic — Morris 855
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Russell 847
• Oil Field Water Supply — Kiowa 833
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Pratt 833
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Seward 830