Water wells in Sedgwick County

74,710 WWC-5 records — 23.7% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 48.7 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Sedgwick 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

4,471 records in Sedgwick County carry a DWR appropriation number — 6.0%, 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 Sedgwick County

The busiest contractor on these records is Harp Well & Pump Service, INC, named on 23,872 of them (32.0%), ahead of Chase Drilling (3,962) and Weninger Drilling, LLC (3,642). The oldest record here was completed in 1973 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 425 feet — a geothermal, closed loop, vertical well drilled by Just Geo Loops in 2025.

Plugging records — in Sedgwick County

14,917 of the 74,710 records in Sedgwick County carry a plugging report (20.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 59,793 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 15,424 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Sedgwick County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Sedgwick County?

59,793 of the 74,710 records in Sedgwick 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 Sedgwick County

By water use in Sedgwick County

• (unstated)/abandoned in Sedgwick County 350
• Dewatering in Sedgwick County 4,560
• Domestic in Sedgwick County 11,212
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden in Sedgwick County 35,852
• Domestic, Livestock in Sedgwick County 181
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge in Sedgwick County 1,488
• Environmental Remediation, Injection in Sedgwick County 547
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction in Sedgwick County 954
• Heat Pump (Closed Loop/Disposal), Geothermal in Sedgwick County 189
• Irrigation in Sedgwick County 1,277
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer in Sedgwick County 15,976
• Public Water Supply in Sedgwick County 162
• Test hole/well in Sedgwick County 198

Counties with a comparable register

• Reno 18,579
• 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.