Oil Field Water Supply wells in Meade County

429 of the 2,318 WWC-5 records in Meade County — 18.5% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Meade County holds 2.3% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 0.7% 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 Bernard E. Carlile Water Well Service, INC, named on 222 of them (51.7%), ahead of Howard Drilling Company Ag, LLC (79) and Cornie Friesen Windmill and Supply CO (52). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2018, and the deepest well on file reaches 480 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Howard Drilling Company Ag, LLC in 2005.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Meade County

29 of the 429 records for oil field water supply in Meade County carry a plugging report (6.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 400 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 346 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?

400 of the 429 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 oil field water supply record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Irrigation — Wichita 438
• Oil Field Water Supply — Thomas 436
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Marion 435
• Domestic — Brown 433
• Domestic — Marshall 432
• Domestic, Livestock — Kingman 430
• Domestic — Nemaha 428
• Domestic, Livestock — Pawnee 427
• Domestic — Phillips 427
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Washington 425
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rush 423