Domestic, Lawn and Garden wells in Rice County

277 of the 4,156 WWC-5 records in Rice County — 6.7% — are recorded for domestic, lawn and garden.

How this group compares

Rice County holds 0.5% of the 54,905 domestic, lawn and garden records in Kansas, while holding 1.3% of the register overall — so this use is under-represented here.

household water plus a yard — the ordinary rural or small-acreage well.

What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Miller Drilling, named on 162 of them (58.5%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (63) and Clarke Well and Equipment, INC (23). The oldest record here was completed in 1976 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 148 feet — a domestic, lawn and garden well drilled by Miller Drilling in 2003.

Plugging records — for domestic, lawn and garden in Rice County

1 of the 277 records for domestic, lawn and garden in Rice County carry a plugging report (0.4%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 276 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 50 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 Rice County?

276 of the 277 records in Rice 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 4,156 records in Rice County, and every domestic, lawn and garden record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Barber 308
• Oil Field Water Supply — Clark 307
• Irrigation — Rush 307
• Dewatering — Reno 304
• Domestic — Wichita 298
• Domestic, Livestock — Norton 287
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Marshall 275
• Irrigation — Shawnee 273
• Domestic, Livestock — Washington 273
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Jackson 272
• Irrigation — Kingman 272