Water wells in Wyandotte County

6,002 WWC-5 records — 1.9% of the Kansas register. The median well here is 35 feet deep, against 60 feet statewide.

How deep people drill in Wyandotte County

This is what a buyer or a builder actually wants, and the Survey does not publish it as a figure you can look up. The numbers below are medians over the records where a figure was reported — a mean would be carried away by a few deep irrigation wells.

What the water is used for

Wells tied to a water right

138 records in Wyandotte County carry a DWR appropriation number — 2.3%, against 11.0% statewide. A well permit and a water right are separate instruments in Kansas, and the appropriation number is the thread back to the Division of Water Resources.

What stands out in Wyandotte County

The busiest contractor on these records is Larsen and Associates, INC, named on 411 of them (6.8%), ahead of Below Ground Surface, INC (321) and Layne-christensen CO (311). The oldest record here was completed in 1970 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest well on file reaches 710 feet — a test hole/well well drilled by Cullum and Brown, INC in 1975.

Plugging records — in Wyandotte County

2,139 of the 6,002 records in Wyandotte County carry a plugging report (35.6%), filed on form WWC-5P. The other 3,863 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 903 records here completed before 1995, that is exactly what a buyer checks. Why it matters and who pays.

Who drills in Wyandotte County

When they were drilled

An unplugged well on land in Wyandotte County?

3,863 of the 6,002 records in Wyandotte 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.

Records in Wyandotte County

By water use in Wyandotte County

• Dewatering in Wyandotte County 328
• Domestic in Wyandotte County 197
• Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge in Wyandotte County 222
• Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction in Wyandotte County 173

Counties with a comparable register

• Reno 18,579
• Barton 8,264
• Butler 8,187
• Saline 7,612
• Harvey 7,116
• Stafford 6,530
• Mcpherson 6,180
• Johnson 5,602
• Ellis 5,546
• Finney 5,476
• Pratt 5,098
• Ford 4,946
• Shawnee 4,748

Neighbours by the size of their register, not a ranking: the list slides with the county, so each of the 100 county pages is reachable from the others. All of them.