Domestic wells in Stanton County

236 of the 1,059 WWC-5 records in Stanton County — 22.3% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Stanton 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 Gerald Houck Bros. Drilling CO, named on 51 of them (21.6%), ahead of Joe's Well Service, INC (51) and James Ray Smith Pump Service (28). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 660 feet — a domestic well drilled by Martin's Well Service in 2013.

Plugging records — for domestic in Stanton County

16 of the 236 records for domestic in Stanton County carry a plugging report (6.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 220 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 104 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 Stanton County?

220 of the 236 records in Stanton 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 1,059 records in Stanton County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Graham 240
• Oil Field Water Supply — Sheridan 240
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Morton 238
• Domestic — Osage 238
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Trego 238
• Domestic — Hamilton 237
• Domestic, Livestock — Cheyenne 234
• Domestic, Livestock — Cloud 234
• Irrigation — Republic 234
• Domestic — Atchison 231
• Irrigation — Hamilton 231