Water wells in Doniphan County

516 WWC-5 records — 0.2% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 60 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Doniphan County

This is what a buyer or a builder actually wants, and the Survey does not publish it as a figure you can look up. The numbers below are medians over the records where a figure was reported — a mean would be carried away by a few deep irrigation wells.

What the water is used for

Wells tied to a water right

20 records in Doniphan County carry a DWR appropriation number — 3.9%, against 11.0% statewide. A well permit and a water right are separate instruments in Kansas, and the appropriation number is the thread back to the Division of Water Resources.

What stands out in Doniphan County

The busiest contractor on these records is Strader Drilling Co., INC, named on 139 of them (26.9%), ahead of Larsen and Associates, INC (54) and Jerry D Popplewell Well Boring (38). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 224 feet — a domestic well drilled by Rieschick Drilling CO in 1991.

Plugging records — in Doniphan County

65 of the 516 records in Doniphan County carry a plugging report (12.6%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 451 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 150 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Doniphan County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Doniphan County?

451 of the 516 records in Doniphan 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.

Records in Doniphan County

By water use in Doniphan County

• Domestic in Doniphan County 218
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Doniphan County 201

Counties with a comparable register

• Coffey 703
• Miami 698
• Wallace 696
• Chase 648
• Crawford 645
• Wilson 609
• Mitchell 577
• Osage 547
• Jewell 539
• Linn 535
• Allen 514
• Greeley 455
• Greenwood 392

Neighbours by the size of their register, not a ranking: the list slides with the county, so each of the 100 county pages is reachable from the others. All of them.