Inactive Well — Montgomery County

1,157 of the 22,449 wells on the register in Montgomery County — 5.2% — 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.

Montgomery County holds 7.8% of the wells in this class statewide, while holding 4.3% 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 Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Co., LLC, on 127 of them (11.0%), ahead of Layne Energy Operating, LLC (87) and Not Confirmed (64). The oldest well here was completed in 1965 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest reaches 2752 feet — Cox 2.

Who operated them

An old well on land in Montgomery County?

0 wells in Montgomery County were plugged at the State’s expense, out of 1,157 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 22,449 wells in Montgomery County.

Other groups of a similar size

• Producing — Ness 1,196
• Plugged and Abandoned — Rawlins 1,193
• Plugged and Abandoned — Logan 1,192
• Authorized Injection Well — Anderson 1,173
• ON LIST — Montgomery 1,171
• Approved Intent to Drill — Crawford 1,169
• Plugged and Abandoned — Haskell 1,148
• KCC Fee Fund Plugging — Miami 1,129
• Plugged and Abandoned — Scott 1,087
• Plugged and Abandoned — Stevens 1,077
• Producing — Linn 1,074