Domestic wells in Smith County

214 of the 1,005 WWC-5 records in Smith County — 21.3% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Smith County holds 0.3% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.3% 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 Leroy Maruhn Well Drilling, INC, named on 54 of them (25.2%), ahead of Watson Well Drilling (37) and Maruhn Well Drilling, INC (25). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 688 feet — a domestic well drilled by Melvin B. Karst Water Well Drilling & Service, INC in 1977.

Plugging records — for domestic in Smith County

19 of the 214 records for domestic in Smith County carry a plugging report (8.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 195 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 87 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 Smith County?

195 of the 214 records in Smith 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 1,005 records in Smith County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Heat Pump (Closed Loop/Disposal), Geothermal — Johnson 220
• Domestic — Doniphan 218
• Domestic — Miami 218
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Osage 218
• Domestic, Livestock — Gove 215
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Kingman 215
• Domestic, Livestock — Butler 213
• Domestic, Livestock — Phillips 213
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Decatur 212
• Domestic — Logan 211
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Grant 209