Irrigation wells in Sheridan County

342 of the 2,086 WWC-5 records in Sheridan County — 16.4% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Sheridan County holds 1.4% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.7% 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 Western Well & Pump, INC, named on 79 of them (23.1%), ahead of Blue Jay Drilling Co., INC (56) and Woofter Pump & Well, INC (43). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 324 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Woofter Pump & Well, INC in 2011.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Sheridan County

29 of the 342 records for irrigation in Sheridan County carry a plugging report (8.5%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 313 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 197 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 Sheridan County?

313 of the 342 records in Sheridan 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 2,086 records in Sheridan County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• (unstated)/abandoned — Sedgwick 350
• Domestic — Johnson 349
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Stevens 349
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Gray 346
• Domestic, Livestock — Pratt 345
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Linn 343
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Logan 341
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Kiowa 338
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Ness 332
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Norton 331
• Dewatering — Wyandotte 328