Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Stafford County

622 of the 6,530 WWC-5 records in Stafford County — 9.5% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Stafford County holds 0.7% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 2.1% of the register overall — so this use is under-represented here.

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What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Clarke Well and Equipment, INC, named on 58 of them (9.3%), ahead of Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC (51) and Geocore Services INC (49). The oldest record here was completed in 1978 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 286 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Patrick M Cobb in 1978.

Plugging records — for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Stafford County

171 of the 622 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Stafford County carry a plugging report (27.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 451 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 141 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 Stafford County?

451 of the 622 records in Stafford 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 6,530 records in Stafford County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic, Livestock — Stafford 652
• Domestic — Graham 650
• Domestic — Jackson 647
• Domestic — Wabaunsee 638
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Pottawatomie 636
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Phillips 627
• Domestic — Edwards 620
• Domestic — Decatur 615
• Irrigation — Pratt 613
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kingman 603
• Domestic — Seward 602