Water wells in Johnson County

5,602 WWC-5 records — 1.8% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 18 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Johnson 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

43 records in Johnson County carry a DWR appropriation number — 0.8%, 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 Johnson County

The busiest contractor on these records is Evans Energy Development, INC, named on 398 of them (7.1%), ahead of Larsen and Associates, INC (316) and Below Ground Surface, INC (270). The oldest record here was completed in 1971 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 700 feet — a domestic well drilled by Cullum and Brown in 1974.

Plugging records — in Johnson County

1,786 of the 5,602 records in Johnson County carry a plugging report (31.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 3,816 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 708 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Johnson County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Johnson County?

3,816 of the 5,602 records in Johnson 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 Johnson County

By water use in Johnson County

• Domestic in Johnson County 349
• Geothermal, Closed Loop, Vertical in Johnson County 320
• Heat Pump (Closed Loop/Disposal), Geothermal in Johnson County 220

Counties with a comparable register

• Barton 8,264
• Butler 8,187
• Saline 7,612
• Harvey 7,116
• Stafford 6,530
• Mcpherson 6,180
• Wyandotte 6,002
• Ellis 5,546
• Finney 5,476
• Pratt 5,098
• Ford 4,946
• Shawnee 4,748
• Rice 4,156

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.