Irrigation wells in Harvey County

679 of the 7,116 WWC-5 records in Harvey County — 9.5% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Harvey County holds 2.8% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 2.3% 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 Peterson Irrigation, INC, named on 141 of them (20.8%), ahead of Curtis J. Weninger Irrigation (93) and Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (81). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 260 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Clarke Well and Equipment, INC in 1994.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Harvey County

152 of the 679 records for irrigation in Harvey County carry a plugging report (22.4%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 527 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 239 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 Harvey County?

527 of the 679 records in Harvey 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 7,116 records in Harvey County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Seward 734
• Domestic — Pawnee 733
• Domestic — Sherman 724
• Irrigation — Stevens 724
• Oil Field Water Supply — Kingman 699
• Domestic — Washington 684
• Oil Field Water Supply — Stevens 679
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Mcpherson 676
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Lyon 675
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Barton 663
• Domestic — Meade 663