Water wells in Thomas County

2,827 WWC-5 records — 0.9% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 180 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Thomas County

This is what a buyer or a builder actually wants, and the Survey does not publish it as a figure you can look up. The numbers below are medians over the records where a figure was reported — a mean would be carried away by a few deep irrigation wells.

What the water is used for

Wells tied to a water right

497 records in Thomas County carry a DWR appropriation number — 17.6%, against 11.0% statewide. A well permit and a water right are separate instruments in Kansas, and the appropriation number is the thread back to the Division of Water Resources.

What stands out in Thomas County

The busiest contractor on these records is Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC, named on 498 of them (17.6%), ahead of Woofter Pump & Well, INC (233) and Western Well & Pump, INC (203). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 383 feet — a geothermal, closed loop, vertical well drilled by Associated Drilling, INC in 2014.

Plugging records — in Thomas County

940 of the 2,827 records in Thomas County carry a plugging report (33.3%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 1,887 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 912 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Thomas County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Thomas County?

1,887 of the 2,827 records in Thomas 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.

Records in Thomas County

By water use in Thomas County

• Domestic in Thomas County 1,172
• Irrigation in Thomas County 399
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Thomas County 511
• Oil Field Water Supply in Thomas County 436

Counties with a comparable register

• Riley 3,583
• Pawnee 3,568
• Douglas 3,290
• Gray 3,079
• Seward 2,995
• Pottawatomie 2,949
• Leavenworth 2,850
• Kiowa 2,662
• Stevens 2,587
• Marion 2,513
• Meade 2,318
• Haskell 2,288
• Montgomery 2,285

Neighbours by the size of their register, not a ranking: the list slides with the county, so each of the 100 county pages is reachable from the others. All of them.