Irrigation wells in Sumner County

399 of the 3,912 WWC-5 records in Sumner County — 10.2% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Sumner County holds 1.6% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 1.2% 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 Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC, named on 85 of them (21.3%), ahead of Peterson Mcnett Drilling, INC (81) and Premier Pump and Well Service, INC (52). The oldest record here was completed in 1975 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 110 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Rosencrantz-bemis Ent., INC in 2020.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Sumner County

12 of the 399 records for irrigation in Sumner County carry a plugging report (3.0%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 387 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 64 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 Sumner County?

387 of the 399 records in Sumner 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 3,912 records in Sumner County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic — Trego 409
• Irrigation — Scott 404
• Oil Field Water Supply — Ford 402
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Coffey 401
• Domestic — Chase 400
• Irrigation — Rice 399
• Irrigation — Thomas 399
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rawlins 395
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Morris 394
• Domestic — Cheyenne 393
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Franklin 392