Domestic, Livestock wells in Morris County

271 of the 1,671 WWC-5 records in Morris County — 16.2% — are recorded for domestic, livestock.

How this group compares

Morris County holds 1.5% of the 17,552 domestic, livestock records in Kansas, while holding 0.5% 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 113 of them (41.7%), ahead of Zinn Water Well Drlg (33) and Backhus Well Drilling LLC (29). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 200 feet — a domestic, livestock well drilled by Zinn Water Well Drlg in 1975.

Plugging records — for domestic, livestock in Morris County

3 of the 271 records for domestic, livestock in Morris County carry a plugging report (1.1%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 268 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 20 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 Morris County?

268 of the 271 records in Morris 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 1,671 records in Morris County, and every domestic, livestock record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Marshall 275
• Irrigation — Shawnee 273
• Domestic, Livestock — Washington 273
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Jackson 272
• Irrigation — Kingman 272
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Clay 271
• Domestic, Livestock — Russell 271
• Domestic, Livestock — Ellsworth 267
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Reno 267
• Oil Field Water Supply — Harper 266
• Irrigation — Sherman 261