# Eastern Kansas — how far the water table has moved

> 69 sections in Eastern Kansas, with the depth to water before development and in 2022–2024.

## Eastern Kansas

**69** sections — 0.2% of the surface — across **8** townships.

### What this region is

barely covered at all — 69 sections out of 33,190. The High Plains aquifer does not extend here, so an absent figure is a geological fact, not a missing measurement.

### What has happened in Eastern Kansas

Median depth went from **25.6 ft** before development to
**43.2 ft** — a change of **18.0 ft**, over
4 of 69 sections. Deeper: 4. Shallower:
0. Sharpest fall, section 31 at
18.5 ft; the smallest fall is section 19 at 16.0 ft — every section here is deeper than before.

[Why some sections have
risen](/how-far.md).

### The townships

*Every township in this region that has a page of its own.*

| Township | County | Sections | Median change |
|---|---|---|---|

### Buying or drilling in Eastern Kansas?

The median section here has moved 18.0 ft. What that means for one quarter section takes someone on the ground. Tell us where; we pass the request on.

We are nobody's agent and have no arrangement with any firm today. [What we do with this](/privacy.md).

### The other regions

- [Far western Kansas](/region/far-western-kansas.md) 20,734
- [Central and western Kansas](/region/central-and-western-kansas.md) 9,033
- [Central Kansas](/region/central-kansas.md) 3,354

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Página: https://ks-water-table.pages.dev/region/eastern-kansas/
Fonte: Kansas depth to water, predevelopment against 2022-2024 — Kansas Geological Survey, joined to WWC-5 well completion records
Recolha: 2026-08-23