Domestic wells in Norton County

793 of the 1,770 WWC-5 records in Norton County — 44.8% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Norton County holds 1.0% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.6% 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 Leo J. Stalder Drilling, named on 177 of them (22.3%), ahead of Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC (177) and John Fawcett Drilling CO (100). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 280 feet — a domestic well drilled by D & R Pump Service, LLC in 2014.

Plugging records — for domestic in Norton County

73 of the 793 records for domestic in Norton County carry a plugging report (9.2%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 720 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 311 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 Norton County?

720 of the 793 records in Norton 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 1,770 records in Norton County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Kiowa 833
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Pratt 833
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Seward 830
• Oil Field Water Supply — Reno 828
• Domestic — Ottawa 808
• Domestic — Clay 797
• Oil Field Water Supply — Rice 781
• Domestic — Rice 771
• Irrigation — Stafford 770
• Domestic — Ellsworth 759
• Oil Field Water Supply — Seward 734