Domestic wells in Meade County

663 of the 2,318 WWC-5 records in Meade County — 28.6% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Meade County holds 0.9% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.7% 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 Bartel Well Drilling, INC, named on 272 of them (41.0%), ahead of Cornie Friesen Windmill and Supply CO (106) and Southwest Windmill and Water Well Service, INC (56). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 560 feet — a domestic well drilled by Nash Ww Srvc in 2025.

Plugging records — for domestic in Meade County

105 of the 663 records for domestic in Meade County carry a plugging report (15.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 558 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 243 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 Meade County?

558 of the 663 records in Meade 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 2,318 records in Meade County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Washington 684
• Irrigation — Harvey 679
• Oil Field Water Supply — Stevens 679
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Mcpherson 676
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Lyon 675
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Barton 663
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Sumner 659
• Oil Field Water Supply — Pawnee 658
• Domestic — Geary 653
• Domestic — Barber 652
• Domestic, Livestock — Stafford 652