Oil Field Water Supply wells in Stafford County

2,655 of the 6,530 WWC-5 records in Stafford County — 40.7% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Stafford County holds 14.4% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 2.1% 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 Kelly's Water Well Service, INC, named on 1,079 of them (40.6%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (650) and Rudolph J. Reiser Water Well Service, INC (348). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 333 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Clarke Well & Equipment, INC in 2020.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Stafford County

402 of the 2,655 records for oil field water supply in Stafford County carry a plugging report (15.1%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 2,253 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 1,717 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?

2,253 of the 2,655 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 oil field water supply record in Kansas.

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