Oil & gas wells in Humboldt County, CA
208 catalogued wells in Humboldt County, California, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Humboldt County, California has 208 catalogued oil & gas wells: 33 active (16%), 141 plugged & abandoned (68%) and 3 documented orphans. It ranks 28th of the 39 California counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 242,471 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
208
Active
33
Plugged
141
Documented orphans
3
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Humboldt County?
16% of Humboldt County's wells are active, 7 percentage points below the California share of 22%. 68% are plugged & abandoned, against 60% statewide and 47% nationally. 19 wells (9%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 3 wells (1%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across California and 4% nationally. The remaining 12 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Humboldt County?
By product class, 14 of the county's wells (7%) are oil wells, 77 (37%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 68% and the gas share 3%. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Humboldt County compare with other California counties?
Humboldt County has the 28th-most catalogued wells of the 39 California counties with at least 25. The median California county on WellCensus has 675 wells. The largest, Kern County, has 156,849. By documented orphans it ranks 27th in California.
Who operates wells in Humboldt County?
60 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Humboldt 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 Humboldt County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holmes-Eureka 5 | 04-023-00001 | Active | Gas | California Resources Production Corporation |
| Holmes-Eureka 13 | 04-023-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | California Resources Production Corporation |
| Fortuna (NCT-1) 1 | 04-023-00003 | Shut-in | Gas | California Resources Production Corporation |
| Leon Oro Blanco GB-1 | 04-023-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Zephyr Oil Co. |
| Leon Oro Blanco GB-2 | 04-023-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Zephyr Oil Co. |
| Leon Oro Blanco GB-3 | 04-023-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Zephyr Oil Co. |
| Table Bluff Unit 1 1 | 04-023-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Stateswide Oil Corp. |
| Caesar 1 | 04-023-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Brookline Oil Co. |
| Lease by Cape Mendocino Oil Co., Inc. 1 | 04-023-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cape Mendocino Oil Co., Inc. |
| Lease by Cape Mendocino Oil Co., Inc. 2 | 04-023-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cape Mendocino Oil Co., Inc. |
| West Coast 1 | 04-023-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | West Coast Oil Corp. |
| Lease by Shelby Woods 2 | 04-023-00012 | Other status | Oil | Shelby Woods |
| Lease by Yatura Petro., Inc. 1 | 04-023-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Yatura Petro., Inc. |
| Bo-Peep 1 | 04-023-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Bo-Peep Eureka Oil Co. |
| Eel River 1-26 | 04-023-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Western Continental Operating Company |
| Christensen 1 | 04-023-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Bishop Oil & Gas Properties |
| Niles-Quinn 1 | 04-023-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Bishop Oil & Gas Properties |
| Anderson 1 | 04-023-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Bishop Oil & Gas Properties |
| Leon Oro Blanco T-1 | 04-023-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Zephyr Oil Co. |
| Leon Oro Blanco T-2 | 04-023-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Zephyr Oil Co. |
| Leon Oro Blanco T-3 | 04-023-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Zephyr Oil Co. |
| Leon Oro Blanco T-4 | 04-023-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Zephyr Oil Co. |
| Leon Oro Blanco T-5 | 04-023-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Zephyr Oil Co. |
| Leon Oro Blanco T-6 | 04-023-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Zephyr Oil Co. |
| Leon Oro Blanco T-7 | 04-023-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Zephyr Oil Co. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 208 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 Humboldt County, CA?
Humboldt County, California has 208 catalogued oil & gas wells: 33 active, 141 plugged and 3 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Humboldt County?
3 wells in Humboldt County, California are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 27th-highest count among California counties.
What share of wells in Humboldt County are plugged?
141 of Humboldt County's 208 catalogued wells (68%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 60% across California.
Which California county has the most oil and gas wells?
Kern County has the most catalogued wells of any California county on WellCensus (156,849); Humboldt County ranks 28th with 208.
How many companies operate wells in Humboldt County?
60 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Humboldt County, California.
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About this data
Source: CalGEM WellSTAR 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 Humboldt County, California”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/california/humboldt (data as of October 10, 2026).