Water wells in Osage County

547 WWC-5 records — 0.2% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 31 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Osage 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

3 records in Osage County carry a DWR appropriation number — 0.5%, 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 Osage County

The busiest contractor on these records is Larsen and Associates, INC, named on 59 of them (10.8%), ahead of Strader Drilling Co., INC (56) and Evans Energy Development, INC (33). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 400 feet — a pond/swimming pool/recreation well drilled by Royce Swank Drilling in 1980.

Plugging records — in Osage County

167 of the 547 records in Osage County carry a plugging report (30.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 380 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 139 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Osage County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Osage County?

380 of the 547 records in Osage 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 Osage County

By water use in Osage County

• Domestic in Osage County 238
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Osage County 218

Counties with a comparable register

• Coffey 703
• Miami 698
• Wallace 696
• Chase 648
• Crawford 645
• Wilson 609
• Mitchell 577
• Jewell 539
• Linn 535
• Doniphan 516
• Allen 514
• Greeley 455
• Greenwood 392

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.