Irrigation wells in Morton County

158 of the 1,201 WWC-5 records in Morton County — 13.2% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Morton County holds 0.6% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.4% 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 Hydro Resources Mid Continent, INC, named on 25 of them (15.8%), ahead of Ktm Drilling, INC (22) and Minter-wilson Drlg. Co., INC (21). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 875 feet — a irrigation well drilled by A.f. Dreiling, Dreiling, INC in 1977.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Morton County

11 of the 158 records for irrigation in Morton County carry a plugging report (7.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 147 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 67 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 Morton County?

147 of the 158 records in Morton 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 1,201 records in Morton County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic, Livestock — Decatur 163
• Oil Field Water Supply — Gray 163
• Oil Field Water Supply — Mcpherson 162
• Public Water Supply — Sedgwick 162
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Republic 160
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Clark 159
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Sheridan 158
• Domestic, Livestock — Harper 157
• Dewatering — Barton 156
• Irrigation — Cheyenne 156
• Domestic — Coffey 156