Water wells in Reno County

18,579 WWC-5 records — 5.9% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 45 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Reno 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

1,850 records in Reno County carry a DWR appropriation number — 10.0%, 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 Reno County

The busiest contractor on these records is Miller Drilling, named on 5,901 of them (31.8%), ahead of Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC (2,162) and Price Water Well Service (1,142). The oldest record here was completed in 1970 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 738.5 feet — a test hole/well well drilled by Pratt Well Service, INC in 2003.

Plugging records — in Reno County

2,958 of the 18,579 records in Reno County carry a plugging report (15.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 15,621 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 5,371 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Reno County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Reno County?

15,621 of the 18,579 records in Reno 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 Reno County

By water use in Reno County

• (unstated)/abandoned in Reno County 176
• Dewatering in Reno County 304
• Domestic in Reno County 4,381
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden in Reno County 3,758
• Domestic, Livestock in Reno County 1,854
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge in Reno County 379
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction in Reno County 267
• Irrigation in Reno County 1,121
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Reno County 4,045
• Oil Field Water Supply in Reno County 828
• Test hole/well in Reno County 152

Counties with a comparable register

• Sedgwick 74,710
• Barton 8,264
• Butler 8,187
• Saline 7,612
• Harvey 7,116
• Stafford 6,530
• Mcpherson 6,180
• Wyandotte 6,002
• Johnson 5,602
• Ellis 5,546
• Finney 5,476
• Pratt 5,098
• Ford 4,946

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.