Irrigation wells in Grant County

529 of the 1,571 WWC-5 records in Grant County — 33.7% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Grant County holds 2.2% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.5% 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 Minter-wilson Drlg. Co., INC, named on 151 of them (28.5%), ahead of Gerald Houck Bros. Drilling CO (90) and Henkle Drilling & Supply Co. INC (70). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 799 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Downey Drlg #748 in 2022.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Grant County

79 of the 529 records for irrigation in Grant County carry a plugging report (14.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 450 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 250 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 Grant County?

450 of the 529 records in Grant 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 1,571 records in Grant County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ellsworth 565
• Irrigation — Ford 561
• Environmental Remediation, Injection — Sedgwick 547
• Domestic — Kiowa 546
• Irrigation — Meade 545
• Domestic, Livestock — Marion 543
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rooks 528
• Domestic — Lincoln 526
• Domestic, Livestock — Edwards 521
• Domestic — Jefferson 521
• Domestic — Stevens 520