Domestic wells in Rush County

441 of the 1,921 WWC-5 records in Rush County — 23.0% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Rush County holds 0.6% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.6% 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 Kelly's Water Well Service, INC, named on 153 of them (34.7%), ahead of Karst Water Well Drilling & Service, INC (74) and Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (69). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 510 feet — a domestic well drilled by Town & Country Water Well Service in 2000.

Plugging records — for domestic in Rush County

99 of the 441 records for domestic in Rush County carry a plugging report (22.4%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 342 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 207 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 Rush County?

342 of the 441 records in Rush 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 1,921 records in Rush County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Marion 446
• Domestic — Lyon 445
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Harper 444
• Domestic — Ness 444
• Irrigation — Mcpherson 443
• Irrigation — Stanton 442
• Domestic, Livestock — Barton 440
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Cloud 440
• Domestic — Scott 439
• Irrigation — Wichita 438
• Oil Field Water Supply — Thomas 436