Oil Field Water Supply wells in Rice County

781 of the 4,156 WWC-5 records in Rice County — 18.8% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Rice County holds 4.2% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 1.3% 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 360 of them (46.1%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (178) and Rudolph J. Reiser Water Well Service, INC (102). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 220 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Well Owner in 1997.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Rice County

115 of the 781 records for oil field water supply in Rice County carry a plugging report (14.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 666 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 534 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?

666 of the 781 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 oil field water supply record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Pratt 833
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Seward 830
• Oil Field Water Supply — Reno 828
• Domestic — Ottawa 808
• Domestic — Clay 797
• Domestic — Norton 793
• Domestic — Rice 771
• Irrigation — Stafford 770
• Domestic — Ellsworth 759
• Oil Field Water Supply — Seward 734
• Domestic — Pawnee 733