Domestic wells in Thomas County

1,172 of the 2,827 WWC-5 records in Thomas County — 41.5% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Thomas County holds 1.5% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.9% of the register overall — so this use is over-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 Bartell Drilling & Machine Works, named on 181 of them (15.4%), ahead of Well Owner (139) and Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC (131). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 320 feet — a domestic well drilled by Bartell Drilling & Machine Works in 1994.

Plugging records — for domestic in Thomas County

467 of the 1,172 records for domestic in Thomas County carry a plugging report (39.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 705 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 342 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 Thomas County?

705 of the 1,172 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.

The records

Part of a bigger picture: all 2,827 records in Thomas County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Saline 1,266
• Domestic — Pottawatomie 1,259
• Domestic — Douglas 1,258
• Oil Field Water Supply — Edwards 1,241
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Sumner 1,217
• Oil Field Water Supply — Barton 1,212
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Cowley 1,141
• Irrigation — Haskell 1,137
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rice 1,128
• Irrigation — Gray 1,127
• Irrigation — Reno 1,121