An investigation of the geology and ground-water resources was begun in Reno County in the summer of 1949 by the United States Geological Survey and the State Geological Survey of Kansas, with the cooperation of the Division of Sanitation of the Kansas State Board of Health and the Division of Water Resources of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture.
Ground water is a principal natural resource of Reno County.
At the present rate of withdrawal, the danger of seriously depleting the ground-water supply in Reno County is very slight. But an adequate understanding is needed of the quantity and quality of the available supply, and of measures necessary to safeguard it so that water supplies for rapidly increasing municipal, industrial, and agricultural uses can be developed in an orderly fashion. Location and Extent of the Area Reno County, in south-central Kansas, is bounded on the north by Rice and McPherson counties, on the west by Stafford and Pratt counties, on the south by Kingman County, and on the east by Harvey and Sedgwick counties. For additional information, the KGS Geologic Maps of Kansas Page . A detailed study of the geology and ground-water resources of Reno County has not been made previously.