Water wells in Linn County

535 WWC-5 records — 0.2% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 34.5 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Linn 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

1 records in Linn County carry a DWR appropriation number — 0.2%, 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 Linn County

The busiest contractor on these records is Geotechnology, INC, named on 65 of them (12.1%), ahead of Evans Energy Development, INC (59) and Larsen and Associates, INC (46). The oldest record here was completed in 1978 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 985 feet — a oil field water supply well drilled by Big E Drilline in 1988.

Plugging records — in Linn County

232 of the 535 records in Linn County carry a plugging report (43.4%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 303 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 56 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Linn County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Linn County?

303 of the 535 records in Linn 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 Linn County

By water use in Linn County

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Linn County 343

Counties with a comparable register

• Coffey 703
• Miami 698
• Wallace 696
• Chase 648
• Crawford 645
• Wilson 609
• Mitchell 577
• Osage 547
• Jewell 539
• Doniphan 516
• Allen 514
• Greeley 455
• Greenwood 392

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.