Domestic wells in Sherman County

724 of the 1,533 WWC-5 records in Sherman County — 47.2% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Sherman County holds 0.9% 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 Ruben T. Schaal Drilling CO, named on 168 of them (23.2%), ahead of Well Owner (96) and Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC (49). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2024, and the deepest well on file reaches 380 feet — a domestic well drilled by Schaal Drilling CO in 1999.

Plugging records — for domestic in Sherman County

252 of the 724 records for domestic in Sherman County carry a plugging report (34.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 472 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 210 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 Sherman County?

472 of the 724 records in Sherman 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 1,533 records in Sherman County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Rice 781
• Domestic — Rice 771
• Irrigation — Stafford 770
• Domestic — Ellsworth 759
• Oil Field Water Supply — Seward 734
• Domestic — Pawnee 733
• Irrigation — Stevens 724
• Oil Field Water Supply — Kingman 699
• Domestic — Washington 684
• Irrigation — Harvey 679
• Oil Field Water Supply — Stevens 679