Search the water use records
A county name works best. The point number works if you have it from an official record.
Working through a lease block or a portfolio? Pro access resolves a list of points, and the datasets are published with their prices — from USD 300 a month for the stream of changes.
What comes back
One point of diversion, with its whole series: what it reported every year from 1990 to 2023, its ten-year average, the irrigated area, and its highest year on record. That series is the reason this site exists — it is not rendered anywhere else in one view.
Nothing is searched on our servers. The index is a set of static files and the lookup runs in your browser, which is why an individual record has no address of its own and cannot be indexed as a page about somebody's land.
⚠️ You cannot search by address, and that is deliberate
A point of diversion is not located by an address. The source carries coordinates; we do not download them. The pages carry the county, the district and the aquifer region — wide units.
⚠️ What a blank does not mean
- Not that there is no right. This file covers points of diversion as the Survey compiles them; a right can exist and not appear as you expect.
- Not that a right is unused. A 0 in this file is not a finding. There are no blanks in the usage columns — every point carries a number for every year — so a nil return, a point that did not yet exist, and a report never filed all read the same. Kansas fines non-filing (USD 250 per file, USD 1,000 and suspension after 1 June), which is exactly why a missing report looks like a quiet year.
- Not a meter reading. These are the figures water-right holders reported. They describe declared use, not what a meter would have read, and they say nothing about the condition of a well or the state of the aquifer beneath it.
This is an independent copy, not the register. The Survey recommends that its data be taken directly from a KGS server rather than through another site that may have changed it — for anything a transaction depends on, use theirs.