Irrigation wells in Seward County

471 of the 2,995 WWC-5 records in Seward County — 15.7% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Seward County holds 1.9% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 1.0% 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 Henkle Drilling & Supply Co. INC, named on 94 of them (20.0%), ahead of Hydro Resources Mid Continent, INC (71) and Layne-christensen CO (45). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 760 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Hydro Resources Mid Continent, INC in 2016.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Seward County

42 of the 471 records for irrigation in Seward County carry a plugging report (8.9%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 429 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 188 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 Seward County?

429 of the 471 records in Seward 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 2,995 records in Seward County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Irrigation — Barton 514
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Thomas 511
• Domestic — Haskell 508
• Domestic — Cowley 485
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Smith 478
• Domestic — Grant 476
• Domestic — Clark 469
• Domestic — Cloud 469
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Cherokee 466
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Atchison 457
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Brown 457