Irrigation wells in Cheyenne County

156 of the 1,136 WWC-5 records in Cheyenne County — 13.7% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Cheyenne County holds 0.6% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.4% of the register overall — so this use is over-represented here.

watering crops, at the volume an appropriation allows. These are the deep, high-yield wells, and they are the ones most often tied to a DWR water right.

What stands out among these

The busiest contractor on these records is Schoenrogge Drilling, INC, named on 57 of them (36.5%), ahead of Western Well & Pump, INC (25) and Jack Poore Drilling INC (20). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2023, and the deepest well on file reaches 355 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Downey Drlg #748 in 2022.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Cheyenne County

23 of the 156 records for irrigation in Cheyenne County carry a plugging report (14.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 133 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 120 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 Cheyenne County?

133 of the 156 records in Cheyenne 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 1,136 records in Cheyenne County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Republic 160
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Clark 159
• Irrigation — Morton 158
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Sheridan 158
• Domestic, Livestock — Harper 157
• Dewatering — Barton 156
• Domestic — Coffey 156
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Saline 156
• Irrigation — Saline 156
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Cloud 155
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Ellsworth 155