Water wells in Morris County

1,671 WWC-5 records — 0.5% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 80 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Morris 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

10 records in Morris County carry a DWR appropriation number — 0.6%, 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 Morris County

The busiest contractor on these records is Zinn Water Well Drlg, named on 393 of them (23.5%), ahead of Backhus Well Drilling, LLC (141) and L.h. Krause Shop (125). The oldest record here was completed in 1973 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 250 feet — a geothermal, closed loop, vertical well drilled by Environmental Loop Service, INC in 2013.

Plugging records — in Morris County

205 of the 1,671 records in Morris County carry a plugging report (12.3%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 1,466 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 489 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Morris County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Morris County?

1,466 of the 1,671 records in Morris 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 Morris County

By water use in Morris County

• Domestic in Morris County 855
• Domestic, Livestock in Morris County 271
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Morris County 394

Counties with a comparable register

• Geary 1,901
• Barber 1,835
• Washington 1,798
• Phillips 1,775
• Norton 1,770
• Russell 1,752
• Cloud 1,746
• Rawlins 1,643
• Clay 1,621
• Ottawa 1,592
• Grant 1,571
• Scott 1,571
• Franklin 1,558

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.