Irrigation wells in Edwards County

879 of the 3,879 WWC-5 records in Edwards County — 22.7% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Edwards County holds 3.6% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 1.2% 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 Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC, named on 565 of them (64.3%), ahead of Clarke Well and Equipment, INC (220) and Kelly's Water Well Service, INC (13). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 264 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC in 1995.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Edwards County

168 of the 879 records for irrigation in Edwards County carry a plugging report (19.1%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 711 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 511 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 Edwards County?

711 of the 879 records in Edwards 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 3,879 records in Edwards County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

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