Irrigation wells in Norton County

190 of the 1,770 WWC-5 records in Norton County — 10.7% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Norton County holds 0.8% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.6% 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 Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC, named on 35 of them (18.4%), ahead of Holdrege Well Service (23) and Blue Jay Drilling Co., INC (20). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2023, and the deepest well on file reaches 330 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Woofter Pump and Well, INC in 2015.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Norton County

10 of the 190 records for irrigation in Norton County carry a plugging report (5.3%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 180 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 34 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 Norton County?

180 of the 190 records in Norton 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 1,770 records in Norton County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Comanche 198
• Test hole/well — Sedgwick 198
• Domestic, Livestock — Saline 197
• Domestic — Wyandotte 197
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Miami 196
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Greenwood 193
• Heat Pump (Closed Loop/Disposal), Geothermal — Sedgwick 189
• Oil Field Water Supply — Decatur 187
• Domestic, Livestock — Finney 187
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Ottawa 186
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Hodgeman 185