Water wells in Kingman County

3,776 WWC-5 records — 1.2% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 66.55 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Kingman 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

485 records in Kingman County carry a DWR appropriation number — 12.8%, 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 Kingman County

The busiest contractor on these records is Dean L. Lyman, INC, named on 324 of them (8.6%), ahead of Kelly's Water Well Service, INC (284) and Dal Wells Drilling CO (280). The oldest record here was completed in 1972 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 330 feet — a heat pump (closed loop/disposal), geothermal well drilled by Environmental Loop Service, INC in 2010.

Plugging records — in Kingman County

578 of the 3,776 records in Kingman County carry a plugging report (15.3%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 3,198 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 1,274 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Kingman County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Kingman County?

3,198 of the 3,776 records in Kingman 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 Kingman County

By water use in Kingman County

• Domestic in Kingman County 1,351
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden in Kingman County 215
• Domestic, Livestock in Kingman County 430
• Irrigation in Kingman County 272
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Kingman County 603
• Oil Field Water Supply in Kingman County 699

Counties with a comparable register

• Finney 5,476
• Pratt 5,098
• Ford 4,946
• Shawnee 4,748
• Rice 4,156
• Sumner 3,912
• Edwards 3,879
• Dickinson 3,662
• Riley 3,583
• Pawnee 3,568
• Douglas 3,290
• Gray 3,079
• Seward 2,995

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.