Monitoring well/observation/piezometer wells in Cherokee County

466 of the 718 WWC-5 records in Cherokee County — 64.9% — are recorded for monitoring well/observation/piezometer.

How this group compares

Cherokee County holds 0.5% of the 85,904 monitoring well/observation/piezometer records in Kansas, while holding 0.2% of the register overall — so this use is over-represented here.

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What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Larsen and Associates, INC, named on 92 of them (19.7%), ahead of Below Ground Surface, INC (55) and Associated Environmental, INC (42). The oldest record here was completed in 1984 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 485 feet — a monitoring well/observation/piezometer well drilled by Layne-western CO in 1995.

Plugging records — for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Cherokee County

167 of the 466 records for monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Cherokee County carry a plugging report (35.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 299 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 44 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 Cherokee County?

299 of the 466 records in Cherokee 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 718 records in Cherokee County, and every monitoring well/observation/piezometer record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Cowley 485
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Smith 478
• Domestic — Grant 476
• Irrigation — Seward 471
• Domestic — Clark 469
• Domestic — Cloud 469
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Atchison 457
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Brown 457
• Domestic — Hodgeman 456
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Osborne 453
• Domestic — Harper 447