Domestic wells in Wallace County

249 of the 696 WWC-5 records in Wallace County — 35.8% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Wallace County holds 0.3% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.2% 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 75 of them (30.1%), ahead of George Kemp's Well Service (37) and Kemp's Well Service (22). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2024, and the deepest well on file reaches 430 feet — a domestic well drilled by Bartell Drilling & Machine Works in 1989.

Plugging records — for domestic in Wallace County

32 of the 249 records for domestic in Wallace County carry a plugging report (12.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 217 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 117 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 Wallace County?

217 of the 249 records in Wallace 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 696 records in Wallace County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Irrigation — Sherman 261
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Meade 260
• Domestic — Jewell 255
• (unstated)/abandoned — Leavenworth 251
• Domestic, Livestock — Barber 250
• Domestic, Livestock — Ness 249
• Domestic, Livestock — Hodgeman 245
• Domestic, Livestock — Lincoln 245
• Irrigation — Cloud 243
• Domestic, Livestock — Sheridan 243
• Domestic, Livestock — Comanche 241