Irrigation wells in Pottawatomie County

174 of the 2,949 WWC-5 records in Pottawatomie County — 5.9% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Pottawatomie County holds 0.7% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.9% of the register overall — so this use is under-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 Daniel H. Hoobler Drilling CO, named on 90 of them (51.7%), ahead of Alexander Pump & Services, INC (13) and Geo Cox & Sons, INC (10). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2024, and the deepest well on file reaches 135 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Alexander Pump & Services, INC in 2014.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Pottawatomie County

28 of the 174 records for irrigation in Pottawatomie County carry a plugging report (16.1%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 146 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 76 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 Pottawatomie County?

146 of the 174 records in Pottawatomie 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 2,949 records in Pottawatomie County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic, Livestock — Sedgwick 181
• Irrigation — Wallace 179
• (unstated)/abandoned — Butler 176
• Oil Field Water Supply — Lane 176
• (unstated)/abandoned — Reno 176
• Domestic, Livestock — Ellis 175
• Domestic, Livestock — Smith 173
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Wabaunsee 173
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Wyandotte 173
• Oil Field Water Supply — Comanche 167
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Ford 166