Domestic wells in Wichita County

298 of the 1,037 WWC-5 records in Wichita County — 28.7% — are recorded for domestic.

How this group compares

Wichita County holds 0.4% of the 77,399 domestic records in Kansas, while holding 0.3% 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 Weishaar Drilling & Supply, INC, named on 110 of them (36.9%), ahead of Midwest Well & Pump, INC (40) and Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC (23). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2023, and the deepest well on file reaches 240 feet — a domestic well drilled by Layne-western CO in 1978.

Plugging records — for domestic in Wichita County

45 of the 298 records for domestic in Wichita County carry a plugging report (15.1%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 253 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 154 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 Wichita County?

253 of the 298 records in Wichita 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 1,037 records in Wichita County, and every domestic record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Scott 312
• Domestic, Livestock — Dickinson 309
• Oil Field Water Supply — Barber 308
• Oil Field Water Supply — Clark 307
• Irrigation — Rush 307
• Dewatering — Reno 304
• Domestic, Livestock — Norton 287
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Rice 277
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Marshall 275
• Irrigation — Shawnee 273
• Domestic, Livestock — Washington 273