Irrigation wells in Wichita County

438 of the 1,037 WWC-5 records in Wichita County — 42.2% — are recorded for irrigation.

How this group compares

Wichita County holds 1.8% of the 24,315 irrigation records in Kansas, while holding 0.3% 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 Weishaar Drilling & Supply, INC, named on 85 of them (19.4%), ahead of Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC (78) and Jones Construction (62). The oldest record here was completed in 1974 and the most recent in 2025, and the deepest well on file reaches 247 feet — a irrigation well drilled by Henkle Drilling & Supply Co. INC in 2005.

Plugging records — for irrigation in Wichita County

170 of the 438 records for irrigation in Wichita County carry a plugging report (38.8%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 268 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 150 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 Wichita County?

268 of the 438 records in Wichita 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 1,037 records in Wichita County, and every irrigation record in Kansas.

Other groups of a similar size

• Irrigation — Mcpherson 443
• Irrigation — Stanton 442
• Domestic — Rush 441
• Domestic, Livestock — Barton 440
• Monitoring well/observation/piezometer — Cloud 440
• Domestic — Scott 439
• Oil Field Water Supply — Thomas 436
• Domestic, Lawn and Garden — Marion 435
• Domestic — Brown 433
• Domestic — Marshall 432
• Domestic, Livestock — Kingman 430