Water wells in Meade County

2,318 WWC-5 records — 0.7% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 240 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Meade 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

620 records in Meade County carry a DWR appropriation number — 26.7%, 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 Meade County

The busiest contractor on these records is Bartel Well Drilling, INC, named on 361 of them (15.6%), ahead of Bernard E. Carlile Water Well Service, INC (234) and Cornie Friesen Windmill and Supply CO (192). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 638 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Hydro Resources Mid Continent, Inc. #145 in 2021.

Plugging records — in Meade County

388 of the 2,318 records in Meade County carry a plugging report (16.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 1,930 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 972 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Meade County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Meade County?

1,930 of the 2,318 records in Meade 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 Meade County

By water use in Meade County

• Domestic in Meade County 663
• Domestic, Livestock in Meade County 200
• Irrigation in Meade County 545
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Meade County 260
• Oil Field Water Supply in Meade County 429

Counties with a comparable register

• Seward 2,995
• Pottawatomie 2,949
• Leavenworth 2,850
• Thomas 2,827
• Kiowa 2,662
• Stevens 2,587
• Marion 2,513
• Haskell 2,288
• Montgomery 2,285
• Cowley 2,223
• Kearny 2,143
• Sheridan 2,086
• Ellsworth 2,028

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.