Irrigation wells in Republic County

234 of the 942 WWC-5 records in Republic County — 24.8% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Republic County holds 1.0% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.3% 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 Dale Shuck Drilling CO, named on 86 of them (36.8%), ahead of Ron Williams Drilling Co., INC (29) and Cox-beswick Irrigation Service, INC (26). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 236.5 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Dale Shuck Drilling CO in 1980.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Republic County

27 of the 234 records for irrigation in Republic County carry a plugging report (11.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 207 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 128 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 Republic County?

207 of the 234 records in Republic 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 942 records in Republic County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Osage 238
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Trego 238
• Domestic — Hamilton 237
• Domestic — Stanton 236
• Domestic, Livestock — Cheyenne 234
• Domestic, Livestock — Cloud 234
• Domestic — Atchison 231
• Irrigation — Hamilton 231
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Hamilton 228
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kearny 226
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Mitchell 226