Irrigation wells in Pratt County

613 of the 5,098 WWC-5 records in Pratt County — 12.0% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Pratt County holds 2.5% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 1.6% 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 Clarke Well and Equipment, INC, named on 228 of them (37.2%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (156) and Central Well & Pump, INC (82). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 257 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Layne-christensen CO in 1977.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Pratt County

47 of the 613 records for irrigation in Pratt County carry a plugging report (7.7%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 566 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 354 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 Pratt County?

566 of the 613 records in Pratt 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 5,098 records in Pratt County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

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• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Pottawatomie 636
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Phillips 627
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Stafford 622
• Domestic — Edwards 620
• Domestic — Decatur 615
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kingman 603
• Domestic — Seward 602
• Domestic — Kearny 596
• Domestic — Rawlins 587
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ellsworth 565