Irrigation wells in Sedgwick County

1,277 of the 74,710 WWC-5 records in Sedgwick County — 1.7% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Sedgwick County holds 5.3% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 23.7% 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 Harp Well & Pump Service, INC, named on 143 of them (11.2%), ahead of Premier Pump and Well Service, INC (122) and Well Owner (103). The oldest record here was completed in 1973 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 220 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Premier Pump & Well Service, INC in 2009.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Sedgwick County

394 of the 1,277 records for irrigation in Sedgwick County carry a plugging report (30.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 883 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 340 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 Sedgwick County?

883 of the 1,277 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.

The records

Part of a bigger picture: all 74,710 records in Sedgwick County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Kingman 1,351
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Finney 1,327
• Domestic — Leavenworth 1,322
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Douglas 1,315
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Riley 1,299
• Domestic — Stafford 1,279
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Ellis 1,276
• Domestic — Saline 1,266
• Domestic — Pottawatomie 1,259
• Domestic — Douglas 1,258
• Oil Field Water Supply — Edwards 1,241