Irrigation wells in Meade County

545 of the 2,318 WWC-5 records in Meade County — 23.5% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Meade County holds 2.2% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.7% 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 Minter-wilson Drlg. Co., INC, named on 113 of them (20.7%), ahead of Henkle Drilling & Supply Co. INC (106) and Hydro Resources Mid Continent, INC (67). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 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 — for irrigation in Meade County

59 of the 545 records for irrigation in Meade County carry a plugging report (10.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 486 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 244 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 Meade County?

486 of the 545 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.

The records

Part of a bigger picture: all 2,318 records in Meade County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Kearny 596
• Domestic — Rawlins 587
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ellsworth 565
• Irrigation — Ford 561
• Environmental Remediation, Injection — Sedgwick 547
• Domestic — Kiowa 546
• Domestic, Livestock — Marion 543
• Irrigation — Grant 529
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rooks 528
• Domestic — Lincoln 526
• Domestic, Livestock — Edwards 521