Irrigation wells in Reno County

1,121 of the 18,579 WWC-5 records in Reno County — 6.0% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Reno County holds 4.6% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 5.9% 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 Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC, named on 383 of them (34.2%), ahead of Peterson Irrigation, INC (112) and Clarke Well and Equipment, INC (92). The oldest record here was completed in 1971 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 220 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Clarke Well and Equipment, INC in 1983.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Reno County

207 of the 1,121 records for irrigation in Reno County carry a plugging report (18.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 914 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 297 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 Reno County?

914 of the 1,121 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.

The records

Part of a bigger picture: all 18,579 records in Reno County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Barton 1,212
• Domestic — Thomas 1,172
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Cowley 1,141
• Irrigation — Haskell 1,137
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rice 1,128
• Irrigation — Gray 1,127
• Domestic — Sumner 1,109
• Irrigation — Pawnee 1,060
• Domestic — Gray 1,028
• Domestic — Sheridan 975
• Irrigation — Kearny 967