Domestic wells in Rooks County

422 of the 1,422 WWC-5 records in Rooks County — 29.7% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Rooks County holds 0.5% 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 Karst Water Well Drilling & Service, INC, named on 150 of them (35.5%), ahead of Andy Anderson Drilling (77) and James F. Jones Bros. Water Well Service (32). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 615 feet — a domestic well drilled by Karst Water Well Drilling & Service, INC in 1993.

Plugging records — for domestic in Rooks County

43 of the 422 records for domestic in Rooks County carry a plugging report (10.2%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 379 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 153 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 Rooks County?

379 of the 422 records in Rooks 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 1,422 records in Rooks County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Meade 429
• Domestic — Nemaha 428
• Domestic, Livestock — Pawnee 427
• Domestic — Phillips 427
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Washington 425
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rush 423
• Domestic — Gove 410
• Domestic — Trego 409
• Irrigation — Scott 404
• Oil Field Water Supply — Ford 402
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Coffey 401