Irrigation wells in Wallace County

179 of the 696 WWC-5 records in Wallace County — 25.7% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Wallace County holds 0.7% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.2% 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 S & H Drilling Co., INC, named on 35 of them (19.6%), ahead of Northwest Drilling Co., INC (17) and A.j. Foust Supply Co. INC (17). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 440 feet — a irrigation well drilled by S & H Drilling Co., INC in 1976.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Wallace County

29 of the 179 records for irrigation in Wallace County carry a plugging report (16.2%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 150 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 121 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 Wallace County?

150 of the 179 records in Wallace 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 696 records in Wallace County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Ottawa 186
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Hodgeman 185
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Haskell 182
• Domestic — Greeley 181
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Lincoln 181
• Domestic, Livestock — Sedgwick 181
• (unstated)/abandoned — Butler 176
• Oil Field Water Supply — Lane 176
• (unstated)/abandoned — Reno 176
• Domestic, Livestock — Ellis 175
• Irrigation — Pottawatomie 174