Oil Field Water Supply wells in Morton County

350 of the 1,201 WWC-5 records in Morton County — 29.1% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Morton County holds 1.9% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 0.4% 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 Howard Drilling Company Ag, LLC, named on 141 of them (40.3%), ahead of T & W Water Well Serv., INC (99) and Bernard E. Carlile Water Well Service, INC (79). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2011, and the deepest well on file reaches 440 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by T & W Water Well Serv., INC in 1989.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Morton County

75 of the 350 records for oil field water supply in Morton County carry a plugging report (21.4%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 275 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 188 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 Morton County?

275 of the 350 records in Morton 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 1,201 records in Morton County, and every oil field water supply record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic, Livestock — Rice 367
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Sherman 367
• Irrigation — Hodgeman 360
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge — Barton 353
• Domestic, Livestock — Mcpherson 351
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Jefferson 350
• (unstated)/abandoned — Sedgwick 350
• Domestic — Johnson 349
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Stevens 349
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Gray 346
• Domestic, Livestock — Pratt 345