Township 21S Range 13W

36 of the 36 sections here carry both measurements. The median section has barely moved 0.5 ft since the aquifer was developed, against 18.2 ft across the whole surface.

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0.5 ftMedian change

StaffordCounty

What has happened in township 21S13W

Median depth went from 19.8 ft before development to 21.6 ft — a change of 0.5 ft, over 36 of 36 sections. Deeper: 17. Shallower: 6. Sharpest fall, section 31 at 6.6 ft; largest rise, section 13 at 1.8 ft.

Why some sections have risen.

Section by section

Township 21S Range 13W — depth to water before the aquifer was developed, against the 2022–2024 surface, in feet below ground. A plus sign means the water is deeper than it was; a minus sign means it is shallower. A dash means one of the two is missing; ≥ marks a change computed from a figure floored at ground level.
Sec.	Before	2022–24	Change
01	15.7 ft	20.7 ft	+5.0
02	16.2 ft	20.3 ft	+4.0
03	20.3 ft	23.0 ft	+2.6
04	23.7 ft	24.3 ft	+0.6
05	27.8 ft	27.8 ft	0
06	27.2 ft	26.8 ft	0
07	29.4 ft	29.3 ft	0
08	26.6 ft	27.0 ft	0
09	23.0 ft	22.5 ft	−0.5
10	18.9 ft	20.8 ft	+1.9
11	13.6 ft	16.0 ft	+2.4
12	13.3 ft	15.5 ft	+2.2
13	13.3 ft	11.4 ft	−1.8
14	11.6 ft	11.6 ft	0
15	19.8 ft	19.5 ft	0
16	24.5 ft	23.6 ft	−0.9
17	25.8 ft	25.5 ft	0
18	30.4 ft	31.0 ft	+0.6
19	25.7 ft	26.9 ft	+1.3
20	22.7 ft	22.9 ft	0
21	24.4 ft	23.6 ft	−0.8
22	13.8 ft	13.0 ft	−0.8
23	9.8 ft	9.3 ft	0
24	16.4 ft	14.6 ft	−1.7
25	18.1 ft	17.6 ft	0
26	11.5 ft	12.0 ft	0
27	12.3 ft	12.4 ft	0
28	21.1 ft	21.6 ft	0
29	23.7 ft	25.1 ft	+1.4
30	20.0 ft	23.4 ft	+3.4
31	14.4 ft	20.9 ft	+6.6
32	16.7 ft	21.9 ft	+5.2
33	14.3 ft	18.5 ft	+4.2
34	11.9 ft	14.6 ft	+2.7
35	15.5 ft	17.5 ft	+2.0
36	20.4 ft	21.7 ft	+1.3

How to read a depth-to-water figure.

Who has drilled in township 21S range 13W

544 wells in township 21S range 13W have a completion record. Busiest driller: Kelly's Water Well Service, INC, 180. Oldest record, 1975. Median well 75.0 ft deep.

Sunk for oil field water supply (207), domestic (122), monitoring well/observation/piezometer (60), irrigation (51).

What a WWC-5 record covers.

Who filed well completion records in township 21S range 13W, busiest first. The last column is the median depth those wells were drilled to — a driller’s own record of how far down the water was.
Driller of record	Wells	Years	Median depth	Median water level
Kelly's Water Well Service, INC	180	1975–2017	78.0 ft	18.0 ft
Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC	96	1975–2018	80.0 ft	20.0 ft
Sam's Water Well Service	41	1983–1995	69.0 ft	18.0 ft
Peterson Irrigation, INC	34	1988–2008	70.0 ft	16.0 ft
Coranco Great Plains	33	2025	27.6 ft	22.9 ft
Coranco Great Plains, INC	27	2014–2019	28.0 ft	0.0 ft
Geocore Services INC	27	1996–2005	23.0 ft	0.0 ft
Rudolph J. Reiser Water Well Service, INC	26	1980–1986	65.0 ft	16.0 ft
Clarke Well and Equipment, INC	21	1975–2010	79.0 ft	12.0 ft
Charles C. Myers Water Well Service	13	1975–1979	60.0 ft	14.0 ft
Jay C. Woofter Pump & Well, INC	9	2004	30.0 ft	19.7 ft
Rosencrantz-bemis Ent	8	2019–2024	75.0 ft	19.0 ft
Defenbaugh Industries, Inc. (t.e.s.t.)	7	1993	26.0 ft	14.4 ft
Michael Peterson Irrigation, INC	6	2000–2004	59.0 ft	18.0 ft
Rosencrantz-bemis Ent., INC	5	2020–2021	80.0 ft	13.0 ft
George Harvey Fanshier	2	1999	97.0 ft	6.0 ft
Tribal Water Well Drlg	2	2018–2023	95.0 ft	36.0 ft
Well Owner	2	1993–2016	77.0 ft	16.0 ft
White and Ellis Drilling, INC	2	1984	80.0 ft	0.0 ft
Clarke Well & Equip	1	2024	80.0 ft	26.0 ft
Crowdis Water Well Service, LLC	1	2002	80.0 ft	0.0 ft
Rama Operating CO	1	1992	65.0 ft	25.0 ft

Wells by decade drilled, with the median depth reached and the median water level the driller measured on arrival.
Decade	Wells	Median depth	Median level
1970s	61	65.0 ft	15.0 ft
1980s	157	70.0 ft	18.0 ft
1990s	82	66.0 ft	16.0 ft
2000s	125	76.0 ft	17.0 ft
2010s	72	80.0 ft	17.0 ft
2020s	46	30.2 ft	22.8 ft

What the wells were sunk for, and how deep each purpose went.
Purpose	Wells	Median depth
Oil Field Water Supply	207	77.0 ft
Domestic	122	70.0 ft
Monitoring well/observation/piezometer	60	26.5 ft
Irrigation	51	85.0 ft
Domestic, Livestock	31	75.0 ft
Environmental Remediation, Air Sparge	29	31.8 ft
Environmental Remediation, Soil Vapor Extraction	19	22.7 ft
Domestic, Lawn and Garden	6	80.0 ft
Domestic, changed from Oil Field Water Supply	6	93.0 ft
Test hole/well	3	30.0 ft
Injection well/air sparge (AS)/shallow	3	23.0 ft
Industrial	2	68.0 ft
Other	2	80.0 ft
Domestic, changed from Irrigation	1	75.0 ft
Feedlot	1	50.0 ft
(unstated)/abandoned	1	105.0 ft

The ten deepest wells on record in township 21S range 13W, by the depth the driller reached. The water level is the one measured on arrival, which is a reading at a point — unlike the surface figures above. The first column is the WWC-5 record number.
Record	Year	Depth	Water level	Purpose	Driller
365084	2005	202.0 ft	18.0 ft	Monitoring well/observation/piezometer	Peterson Irrigation, INC
82362	1986	197.0 ft	27.5 ft	Monitoring well/observation/piezometer	Clarke Well and Equipment, INC
348147	2004	196.0 ft	18.0 ft	Monitoring well/observation/piezometer	Michael Peterson Irrigation, INC
1052915047	2022	160.0 ft	22.0 ft	Oil Field Water Supply	Rosencrantz-bemis Ent
512416	2017	138.0 ft	16.0 ft	Domestic	Kelly's Water Well Service, INC
82361	1986	132.0 ft	27.5 ft	Monitoring well/observation/piezometer	Clarke Well and Equipment, INC
461196	2012	132.0 ft	32.0 ft	Irrigation	Rosencrantz-bemis Enterprises, INC
82342	1980	126.0 ft	27.0 ft	Oil Field Water Supply	Clarke Well and Equipment, INC
393217	2006	125.0 ft	22.0 ft	Oil Field Water Supply	Kelly's Water Well Service, INC
410027	2007	125.0 ft	22.0 ft	Oil Field Water Supply	Kelly's Water Well Service, INC

Buying or drilling in township 21S range 13W?

The median section here has moved 0.5 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.

This township sits in Central and western Kansas. Stafford County, on 100 % of 544 well filings — inferred, not given.

Townships with a comparable number of sections

18S33W 55.8 ft
18S35W 44.1 ft
18S36W 49.5 ft
18S37W 70.1 ft
20S13W 2.8 ft
20S33W 65.3 ft
21S12W 1.0 ft
21S33W 87.1 ft
22S11W 0.0 ft
22S12W -4.5 ft
22S13W 5.9 ft
22S14W 12.8 ft
22S33W 118.0 ft

Neighbours by the count of measured sections, not a ranking: the list slides with the township, so each of the 256 township pages is reachable from the others. All of them.