Domestic wells in Rice County

771 of the 4,156 WWC-5 records in Rice County — 18.6% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Rice County holds 1.0% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 1.3% 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 Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC, named on 187 of them (24.3%), ahead of Miller Drilling (171) and Kelly's Water Well Service, INC (138). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 256 feet — a domestic well drilled by Peterson Mcnett Drilling, INC in 2021.

Plugging records — for domestic in Rice County

67 of the 771 records for domestic in Rice County carry a plugging report (8.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 704 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 354 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?

704 of the 771 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 record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Seward 830
• Oil Field Water Supply — Reno 828
• Domestic — Ottawa 808
• Domestic — Clay 797
• Domestic — Norton 793
• Oil Field Water Supply — Rice 781
• Irrigation — Stafford 770
• Domestic — Ellsworth 759
• Oil Field Water Supply — Seward 734
• Domestic — Pawnee 733
• Domestic — Sherman 724