Irrigation wells in Sherman County

261 of the 1,533 WWC-5 records in Sherman County — 17.0% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Sherman County holds 1.1% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.5% 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 A.j. Foust Supply Co. INC, named on 44 of them (16.9%), ahead of Western Well & Pump, INC (41) and Northwest Drilling Co., INC (32). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 377 feet — a irrigation well drilled by S & H Drilling Co., INC in 1977.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Sherman County

38 of the 261 records for irrigation in Sherman County carry a plugging report (14.6%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 223 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 192 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 Sherman County?

223 of the 261 records in Sherman 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 1,533 records in Sherman County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Clay 271
• Domestic, Livestock — Morris 271
• Domestic, Livestock — Russell 271
• Domestic, Livestock — Ellsworth 267
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction — Reno 267
• Oil Field Water Supply — Harper 266
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Meade 260
• Domestic — Jewell 255
• (unstated)/abandoned — Leavenworth 251
• Domestic, Livestock — Barber 250
• Domestic, Livestock — Ness 249