Domestic, Livestock wells in Rice County

367 of the 4,156 WWC-5 records in Rice County — 8.8% — are recorded for domestic, livestock.

How this group compares

Rice County holds 2.1% of the 17,552 domestic, livestock records in Kansas, while holding 1.3% of the register overall — so this use is over-represented here.

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What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC, named on 141 of them (38.4%), ahead of Miller Drilling (104) and Rosencrantz-bemis Ent (30). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 180 feet — a domestic, livestock well drilled by Kelly's Water Well Service, INC in 2012.

Plugging records — for domestic, livestock in Rice County

11 of the 367 records for domestic, livestock in Rice County carry a plugging report (3.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 356 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 46 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?

356 of the 367 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, livestock record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge — Reno 379
• Domestic — Montgomery 373
• Domestic, Livestock — Clark 372
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Barber 371
• Domestic, Livestock — Rush 371
• Domestic — Comanche 369
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Sherman 367
• Irrigation — Hodgeman 360
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge — Barton 353
• Domestic, Livestock — Mcpherson 351
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Jefferson 350