Irrigation wells in Kiowa County

314 of the 2,662 WWC-5 records in Kiowa County — 11.8% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Kiowa County holds 1.3% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.8% 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 Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC, named on 141 of them (44.9%), ahead of Clarke Well and Equipment, INC (93) and Central Well & Pump, INC (22). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2023, and the deepest well on file reaches 530 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC in 1993.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Kiowa County

28 of the 314 records for irrigation in Kiowa County carry a plugging report (8.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 286 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 234 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 Kiowa County?

286 of the 314 records in Kiowa 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 2,662 records in Kiowa County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Dewatering — Wyandotte 328
• Domestic — Lane 325
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Nemaha 322
• Domestic, Livestock — Kiowa 321
• Geothermal, Closed Loop, Vertical — Johnson 320
• Domestic — Russell 317
• Oil Field Water Supply — Haskell 312
• Domestic — Republic 312
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Scott 312
• Domestic, Livestock — Dickinson 309
• Oil Field Water Supply — Barber 308