Test hole/well

1,726 of the 314,779 WWC-5 records in Kansas — 0.5%.

What this use means

a use the record files under this heading.

Where they are

What stands out for test hole/well

The busiest contractor on these records is Clarke Well and Equipment, INC, named on 264 of them (15.3%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (106) and Harp Well & Pump Service, INC (53). The oldest record here was completed in 1970 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 738.5 feet — a test hole/well well drilled by Pratt Well Service, INC in 2003.

Plugging records — for test hole/well

648 of the 1,726 records for test hole/well carry a plugging report (37.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 1,078 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 332 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills them

An unplugged well on land in Kansas?

1,078 of the 1,726 records in Kansas 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

The other water uses

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer 85,904
• Domestic 77,399
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden 54,905
• Irrigation 24,315
• Oil Field Water Supply 18,464
• Domestic, Livestock 17,552
• Dewatering 6,212
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge 4,767
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction 3,980
• Public Water Supply 2,710
• (unstated)/abandoned 2,629
• Geothermal, Closed Loop, Vertical 2,001
• Environmental Remediation, Injection 1,827
• Heat Pump (Closed Loop/Disposal), Geothermal 1,583