Irrigation wells in Kingman County

272 of the 3,776 WWC-5 records in Kingman County — 7.2% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Kingman County holds 1.1% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 1.2% of the register overall — so this use is under-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 Central Well & Pump, INC, named on 32 of them (11.8%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (30) and Clarke Well and Equipment, INC (28). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 195 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Layne-christensen CO in 1975.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Kingman County

25 of the 272 records for irrigation in Kingman County carry a plugging report (9.2%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 247 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 108 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 Kingman County?

247 of the 272 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.

The records

Part of a bigger picture: all 3,776 records in Kingman County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic, Livestock — Norton 287
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Rice 277
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Marshall 275
• Irrigation — Shawnee 273
• Domestic, Livestock — Washington 273
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Jackson 272
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Clay 271
• Domestic, Livestock — Morris 271
• Domestic, Livestock — Russell 271
• Domestic, Livestock — Ellsworth 267
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Reno 267