Oil Field Water Supply wells in Pawnee County

658 of the 3,568 WWC-5 records in Pawnee County — 18.4% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Pawnee County holds 3.6% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 1.1% 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 Kelly's Water Well Service, INC, named on 278 of them (42.2%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (152) and Rudolph J. Reiser Water Well Service, INC (99). The oldest record here was completed in 1972 and the most recent in 2024, and the deepest well on file reaches 260 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC in 2014.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Pawnee County

98 of the 658 records for oil field water supply in Pawnee County carry a plugging report (14.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 560 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 435 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?

560 of the 658 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 oil field water supply record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Stevens 679
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Mcpherson 676
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Lyon 675
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Barton 663
• Domestic — Meade 663
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Sumner 659
• Domestic — Geary 653
• Domestic — Barber 652
• Domestic, Livestock — Stafford 652
• Domestic — Graham 650
• Domestic — Jackson 647