Irrigation wells in Thomas County

399 of the 2,827 WWC-5 records in Thomas County — 14.1% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Thomas County holds 1.6% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.9% 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 200 of them (50.1%), ahead of Roy Senior, Western Well & Pump, INC (34) and Blue Jay Drilling Co., INC (21). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2022, and the deepest well on file reaches 327 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Woofter Pump and Well, INC in 2009.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Thomas County

39 of the 399 records for irrigation in Thomas County carry a plugging report (9.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 360 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 304 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 Thomas County?

360 of the 399 records in Thomas 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 2,827 records in Thomas County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Irrigation — Scott 404
• Oil Field Water Supply — Ford 402
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Coffey 401
• Domestic — Chase 400
• Irrigation — Rice 399
• Irrigation — Sumner 399
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Rawlins 395
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Morris 394
• Domestic — Cheyenne 393
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Franklin 392
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Edwards 391