Inactive Well — Wilson County

1,332 of the 12,772 wells on the register in Wilson County — 10.4% — 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.

Wilson County holds 8.9% 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 Cherokee Wells LLC, on 140 of them (10.5%), ahead of Blue Jay Operating, LLC (111) and Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Co., LLC (86). The oldest well here was completed in 1383 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest reaches 1905 feet — M. & J. Huser 'd' 3-16, drilled in 2008.

Who operated them

An old well on land in Wilson County?

0 wells in Wilson County were plugged at the State’s expense, out of 1,332 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 12,772 wells in Wilson County.

Other groups of a similar size

• Producing — Barber 1,523
• Plugged and Abandoned — Harvey 1,520
• Producing — Finney 1,513
• Plugged and Abandoned — Finney 1,462
• Plugged and Abandoned — Comanche 1,392
• Approved Intent to Drill — Anderson 1,367
• Approved Intent to Drill — Bourbon 1,320
• Producing — Haskell 1,312
• Producing — Butler 1,267
• Plugged and Abandoned — Coffey 1,259
• Producing — Greenwood 1,251