Oil Field Water Supply wells in Sheridan County

240 of the 2,086 WWC-5 records in Sheridan County — 11.5% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Sheridan County holds 1.3% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 0.7% 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 Walter Woofter Pump & Well, named on 67 of them (27.9%), ahead of Woofter Pump & Well, INC (52) and Woofter Pump and Well, INC (32). The oldest record here was completed in 1980 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 300 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Kelly's Water Well Service, INC in 1983.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Sheridan County

40 of the 240 records for oil field water supply in Sheridan County carry a plugging report (16.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 200 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 89 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 Sheridan County?

200 of the 240 records in Sheridan 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 2,086 records in Sheridan County, and every oil field water supply record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Irrigation — Cloud 243
• Domestic, Livestock — Sheridan 243
• Domestic, Livestock — Comanche 241
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Gove 241
• Domestic, Livestock — Ford 240
• Oil Field Water Supply — Graham 240
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Morton 238
• Domestic — Osage 238
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Trego 238
• Domestic — Hamilton 237
• Domestic — Stanton 236