Irrigation wells in Rush County

307 of the 1,921 WWC-5 records in Rush County — 16.0% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Rush County holds 1.3% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.6% 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 Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC, named on 175 of them (57.0%), ahead of Kelly's Water Well Service, INC (76) and Clarke Well and Equipment, INC (30). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 132.5 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Cline Drilling in 2000.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Rush County

89 of the 307 records for irrigation in Rush County carry a plugging report (29.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 218 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 109 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 Rush County?

218 of the 307 records in Rush 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 1,921 records in Rush County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Oil Field Water Supply — Haskell 312
• Domestic — Republic 312
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Scott 312
• Domestic, Livestock — Dickinson 309
• Oil Field Water Supply — Barber 308
• Oil Field Water Supply — Clark 307
• Dewatering — Reno 304
• Domestic — Wichita 298
• Domestic, Livestock — Norton 287
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Rice 277
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Marshall 275