Oil & gas wells in Madison County, AR
110 catalogued wells in Madison County, Arkansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Madison County, Arkansas has 110 catalogued oil & gas wells: 3 active (3%), 84 plugged & abandoned (76%) and 19 documented orphans. It ranks 24th of the 33 Arkansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.3% of the state's 33,791 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
110
Active
3
Plugged
84
Documented orphans
19
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Madison County?
3% of Madison County's wells are active, 47 percentage points below the Arkansas share of 50%. 76% are plugged & abandoned, against 44% statewide and 47% nationally. 19 wells (17%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Arkansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 4 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Madison County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 110 (100%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 51% and the gas share 43%. The deepest total depth published for a Madison County well is 3,700 ft, against 17,825 ft for Arkansas as a whole. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Madison County compare with other Arkansas counties?
Madison County has the 24th-most catalogued wells of the 33 Arkansas counties with at least 25. The median Arkansas county on WellCensus has 604 wells. The largest, Union County, has 7,108. By documented orphans it ranks 6th in Arkansas.
Who operates wells in Madison County?
46 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Madison County. 100% of the county's wells carry a link to a canonical operator profile; the rest list no operator or a name not yet resolved. Each well's page names its operator where the state publishes one.
Wells in Madison County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eubanks 1 | 03-087-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Smith & Fairhead |
| Hearin Clerk 1 | 03-087-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Haubelt, R O |
| Ogden, Loomis 1 | 03-087-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Dodd-Streibich Enterprises Inc |
| Loomis, Ogden 1 | 03-087-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Dodd-Streibich Enterprises Inc |
| Dodson, J A 1 | 03-087-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Billingsley, Fred |
| Eubanks 1 | 03-087-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Eversole, Eversole, McAlester & Haynes |
| Canning, Duncan 1 | 03-087-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Whiteley, R D |
| Minor, L W 1 | 03-087-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Arkansas Western Gas Company |
| Morgan, Lee 1 | 03-087-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Dodd-Streibich Enterprises Inc |
| Shipp 1 | 03-087-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Murr, Clayton |
| Rogers, Miles 1 | 03-087-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Eversole, Eversole, McAlester & Haynes |
| Bates 1 | 03-087-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Kennedy, Joe |
| Thomas Estate 1 | 03-087-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Weaver, Andrew |
| Mitchell, John 1 | 03-087-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Wilson, Carl F |
| Hardy 1 | 03-087-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Arkansas Western Gas Company |
| McConnell, Andy 1 | 03-087-00026 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Gentry, Joseph A |
| Ledford, W J 1 | 03-087-00027 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Service Drilling Co |
| Lester, Keck 1 | 03-087-10002 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Pip Petroleum & Thompson, R T |
| Watson, L V 1 | 03-087-10003 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Mammouth Lake Oil Co |
| McChristian, Claud 1 | 03-087-10004 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Standard Petroleum Serices Inc |
| Keck, Lester 3 | 03-087-10006 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Pip Petroleum |
| Sparks 1 | 03-087-10007 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Quality Investments |
| Myatt 1 | 03-087-10008 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Quality Investments |
| Cox 1 | 03-087-10009 | Orphaned | Gas | Speight Oil & Gas Inc |
| Shrum 1 | 03-087-10010 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Hardy & Minor |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 110 in search → (filter by operator, status and type, then export), or find a specific well on the live map.
Frequently asked questions
How many oil and gas wells are in Madison County, AR?
Madison County, Arkansas has 110 catalogued oil & gas wells: 3 active, 84 plugged and 19 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Madison County?
19 wells in Madison County, Arkansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 6th-highest count among Arkansas counties.
What share of wells in Madison County are plugged?
84 of Madison County's 110 catalogued wells (76%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 44% across Arkansas.
Which Arkansas county has the most oil and gas wells?
Union County has the most catalogued wells of any Arkansas county on WellCensus (7,108); Madison County ranks 24th with 110.
How many companies operate wells in Madison County?
46 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Madison County, Arkansas.
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About this data
Source: Arkansas Oil & Gas Commission well registry, plus the USGS United States Documented Orphaned Well Database (2026, doi 10.5066/P13FHBYG), as published October 10, 2026 — WellCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: WellCensus, “Oil & gas wells in Madison County, Arkansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/arkansas/madison (data as of October 10, 2026).