Inactive Well — Greenwood County

408 of the 13,046 wells on the register in Greenwood County — 3.1% — carry this class.

What this class means

on the register, not producing, and not plugged. This is the category a landowner should look at hardest.

Greenwood County holds 2.7% of the wells in this class statewide, while holding 2.5% of the register overall — so the class is over-represented here.

What stands out among these

The operator named on most of these records is Sunshine Energy, on 21 of them (5.1%), ahead of Jackson Bros (18) and Jackson Brothers (16). The oldest well here was completed in 1921 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest reaches 3342 feet — Ritchie Trust 3, drilled in 2007.

Who operated them

An old well on land in Greenwood County?

0 wells in Greenwood County were plugged at the State’s expense, out of 408 on the register — the sign that an operator was gone. If you find a well on your land, report it and do not tidy it up: knocking over casing can make you the responsible party. This site reads the register; it does not plug wells. Tell us where and we pass the request to Kansas operators and consultants.

We recommend nobody 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 wells

Part of a bigger picture: all 13,046 wells in Greenwood County.

Other groups of a similar size

• Plugged with Federal Funds — Montgomery 419
• Inactive Well — Stevens 414
• Plugged and Abandoned — Gray 411
• Authorized Injection Well — Bourbon 409
• Authorized Injection Well — Montgomery 409
• Authorized Injection Well — Barton 408
• KCC Fee Fund Plugging — Woodson 408
• Producing — Douglas 401
• Producing — Reno 389
• Plugged and Abandoned — Jefferson 388
• Expired Intent to Drill (C-1) — Chautauqua 385