Water wells in Rawlins County

1,643 WWC-5 records — 0.5% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 90 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Rawlins 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

208 records in Rawlins County carry a DWR appropriation number — 12.7%, 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 Rawlins County

The busiest contractor on these records is Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC, named on 318 of them (19.4%), ahead of Woofter Pump & Well, INC (123) and Woofter Pump and Well, INC (99). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 333 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC in 2003.

Plugging records — in Rawlins County

434 of the 1,643 records in Rawlins County carry a plugging report (26.4%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 1,209 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 358 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Rawlins County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Rawlins County?

1,209 of the 1,643 records in Rawlins 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 Rawlins County

By water use in Rawlins County

• Domestic in Rawlins County 587
• Domestic, Livestock in Rawlins County 206
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Rawlins County 395

Counties with a comparable register

• Barber 1,835
• Washington 1,798
• Phillips 1,775
• Norton 1,770
• Russell 1,752
• Cloud 1,746
• Morris 1,671
• Clay 1,621
• Ottawa 1,592
• Grant 1,571
• Scott 1,571
• Franklin 1,558
• Harper 1,552

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.