Domestic wells in Seward County

602 of the 2,995 WWC-5 records in Seward County — 20.1% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Seward County holds 0.8% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 1.0% 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 Bartel Well Drilling, INC, named on 104 of them (17.3%), ahead of Howard Drilling Company Ag, LLC (86) and Southwest Windmill and Water Well Service, INC (85). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 615 feet — a domestic well drilled by Destal Tyler Water Well Service in 2006.

Plugging records — for domestic in Seward County

106 of the 602 records for domestic in Seward County carry a plugging report (17.6%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 496 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 208 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 Seward County?

496 of the 602 records in Seward 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 2,995 records in Seward County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Phillips 627
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Stafford 622
• Domestic — Edwards 620
• Domestic — Decatur 615
• Irrigation — Pratt 613
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kingman 603
• Domestic — Kearny 596
• Domestic — Rawlins 587
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ellsworth 565
• Irrigation — Ford 561
• Environmental Remediation, Injection — Sedgwick 547