Domestic wells in Pawnee County

733 of the 3,568 WWC-5 records in Pawnee County — 20.5% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Pawnee County holds 0.9% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 1.1% of the register overall — so this use is under-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 Kelly's Water Well Service, INC, named on 314 of them (42.8%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (216) and Clarke Well and Equipment, INC (69). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 480 feet — a domestic well drilled by Karst Water Well Drilling & Service, INC in 2012.

Plugging records — for domestic in Pawnee County

73 of the 733 records for domestic in Pawnee County carry a plugging report (10.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 660 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 419 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 Pawnee County?

660 of the 733 records in Pawnee 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 3,568 records in Pawnee County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Norton 793
• Oil Field Water Supply — Rice 781
• Domestic — Rice 771
• Irrigation — Stafford 770
• Domestic — Ellsworth 759
• Oil Field Water Supply — Seward 734
• Domestic — Sherman 724
• Irrigation — Stevens 724
• Oil Field Water Supply — Kingman 699
• Domestic — Washington 684
• Irrigation — Harvey 679