Irrigation wells in Hamilton County

231 of the 854 WWC-5 records in Hamilton County — 27.0% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Hamilton County holds 1.0% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.3% 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 Henkle Drilling & Supply Co. INC, named on 50 of them (21.6%), ahead of Hydro Resources Mid Continent, INC (48) and Ark Valley Pump and Supply (29). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 820 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Hydro Resources Mid Continent, INC in 2023.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Hamilton County

37 of the 231 records for irrigation in Hamilton County carry a plugging report (16.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 194 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 100 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 Hamilton County?

194 of the 231 records in Hamilton 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 854 records in Hamilton County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Hamilton 237
• Domestic — Stanton 236
• Domestic, Livestock — Cheyenne 234
• Domestic, Livestock — Cloud 234
• Irrigation — Republic 234
• Domestic — Atchison 231
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Hamilton 228
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kearny 226
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Mitchell 226
• Domestic — Morton 226
• Domestic, Livestock — Harvey 224