Irrigation wells in Shawnee County

273 of the 4,748 WWC-5 records in Shawnee County — 5.7% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Shawnee County holds 1.1% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 1.5% 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 Daniel H. Hoobler Drilling CO, named on 120 of them (44.0%), ahead of Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC (25) and Harold L. Pettit (17). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2024, and the deepest well on file reaches 100 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Evans Energy Development #953 in 2019.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Shawnee County

35 of the 273 records for irrigation in Shawnee County carry a plugging report (12.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 238 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 129 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 Shawnee County?

238 of the 273 records in Shawnee 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 4,748 records in Shawnee County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Irrigation — Rush 307
• Dewatering — Reno 304
• Domestic — Wichita 298
• Domestic, Livestock — Norton 287
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Rice 277
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Marshall 275
• Domestic, Livestock — Washington 273
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Jackson 272
• Irrigation — Kingman 272
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Clay 271
• Domestic, Livestock — Morris 271