Domestic wells in Rawlins County

587 of the 1,643 WWC-5 records in Rawlins County — 35.7% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Rawlins County holds 0.8% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.5% 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 Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC, named on 96 of them (16.4%), ahead of Richard O. Kelley Drilling CO (65) and Well Owner (47). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 326 feet — a domestic well drilled by Walter Woofter Pump & Well in 1990.

Plugging records — for domestic in Rawlins County

124 of the 587 records for domestic in Rawlins County carry a plugging report (21.1%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 463 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 175 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 Rawlins County?

463 of the 587 records in Rawlins 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 1,643 records in Rawlins County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Edwards 620
• Domestic — Decatur 615
• Irrigation — Pratt 613
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kingman 603
• Domestic — Seward 602
• Domestic — Kearny 596
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ellsworth 565
• Irrigation — Ford 561
• Environmental Remediation, Injection — Sedgwick 547
• Domestic — Kiowa 546
• Irrigation — Meade 545