Oil Field Water Supply wells in Thomas County

436 of the 2,827 WWC-5 records in Thomas County — 15.4% — are recorded for oil field water supply.

How this group compares

Thomas County holds 2.4% of the 18,464 oil field water supply records in Kansas, while holding 0.9% 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 Walter Woofter Pump & Well, named on 130 of them (29.8%), ahead of Woofter Pump & Well, INC (73) and Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC (72). The oldest record here was completed in 1978 and the most recent in 2024, and the deepest well on file reaches 300 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC in 1997.

Plugging records — for oil field water supply in Thomas County

144 of the 436 records for oil field water supply in Thomas County carry a plugging report (33.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 292 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 159 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?

292 of the 436 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 oil field water supply record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Irrigation — Stanton 442
• Domestic — Rush 441
• Domestic, Livestock — Barton 440
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Cloud 440
• Domestic — Scott 439
• Irrigation — Wichita 438
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Marion 435
• Domestic — Brown 433
• Domestic — Marshall 432
• Domestic, Livestock — Kingman 430
• Oil Field Water Supply — Meade 429