Irrigation wells in Stevens County

724 of the 2,587 WWC-5 records in Stevens County — 28.0% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Stevens County holds 3.0% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.8% 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 227 of them (31.4%), ahead of Ktm Drilling, INC (111) and Hydro Resources Mid Continent, INC (86). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 790 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Hydro Resources Mid Continent, INC in 2012.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Stevens County

104 of the 724 records for irrigation in Stevens County carry a plugging report (14.4%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 620 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 233 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 Stevens County?

620 of the 724 records in Stevens 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 2,587 records in Stevens County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Rice 771
• Irrigation — Stafford 770
• Domestic — Ellsworth 759
• Oil Field Water Supply — Seward 734
• Domestic — Pawnee 733
• Domestic — Sherman 724
• Oil Field Water Supply — Kingman 699
• Domestic — Washington 684
• Irrigation — Harvey 679
• Oil Field Water Supply — Stevens 679
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Mcpherson 676