Oil & gas wells in Huerfano County, CO
368 catalogued wells in Huerfano County, Colorado, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Huerfano County, Colorado has 368 catalogued oil & gas wells: 23 active (6%), 240 plugged & abandoned (65%) and 5 documented orphans. It ranks 29th of the 47 Colorado counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.3% of the state's 124,327 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
368
Active
23
Plugged
240
Documented orphans
5
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Huerfano County?
6% of Huerfano County's wells are active, 23 percentage points below the Colorado share of 29%. 65% are plugged & abandoned, against 44% statewide and 47% nationally. 12 wells (3%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 5 wells (1%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Colorado and 4% nationally. The remaining 88 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Huerfano County?
By product class, 7 of the county's wells (2%) are oil wells, 122 (33%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 24% and the gas share 34%. The deepest total depth published for a Huerfano County well is 11,555 ft, against 29,046 ft for Colorado as a whole. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Huerfano County compare with other Colorado counties?
Huerfano County has the 29th-most catalogued wells of the 47 Colorado counties with at least 25. The median Colorado county on WellCensus has 497 wells. The largest, Weld County, has 45,804. By documented orphans it ranks 22nd in Colorado.
Who operates wells in Huerfano County?
73 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Huerfano 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 Huerfano County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M-1 State | 05-055-05000 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pan American Petroleum Corp |
| 1 Bailey | 05-055-05001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unknown |
| 1 Hamilton | 05-055-05002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Miller & Hall |
| 1 State | 05-055-05003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Reynolds E E Etal |
| 1 Ritter | 05-055-05004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Obrecht S F |
| 1 Andreoli | 05-055-05007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cabeen Expl |
| 1 Yacconi | 05-055-05009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Travis* Rj |
| 1 Ojo | 05-055-05010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pressey* S W |
| 1 Ferdinand B Rohr | 05-055-05012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pan American Petroleum Corp |
| 5 (Owp) Ojo | 05-055-05014 | Orphaned | Other type | Tompkins & Sons |
| 5 Tompkins | 05-055-05015 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Pressey* S W |
| 4 (Owp) Ojo | 05-055-05016 | Orphaned | Oil | Pressey* S W |
| 1-X (Owp) Tompkins | 05-055-05017 | Orphaned | Other type | Tompkins & Sons |
| 1 Campbell | 05-055-05019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Russell Hubbard Et Al |
| 2 Mestas | 05-055-05021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unknown |
| 2 Ojo | 05-055-05022 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Unknown |
| 3 Tompkins | 05-055-05023 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Tompkins & Sons |
| 1 Dick Realty & Inv Co | 05-055-05027 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Petroglyph Operating Co Inc Adba Petroglyph Energy |
| 1 Firm Bros | 05-055-05028 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dunigan Jr* E J |
| 1 Campbell | 05-055-05029 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gled Oil Et Al |
| 1 Stauder | 05-055-05030 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Kimbark Oil & Gas Company |
| 1 Two Pines | 05-055-05031 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unknown |
| 1 Valdez | 05-055-05032 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unknown |
| 1a Saliba Area | 05-055-05033 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unknown |
| 1 Hendershot Dome | 05-055-05034 | Other status | Other type | Hendershot Oil Company |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 368 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 Huerfano County, CO?
Huerfano County, Colorado has 368 catalogued oil & gas wells: 23 active, 240 plugged and 5 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Huerfano County?
5 wells in Huerfano County, Colorado are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 22nd-highest count among Colorado counties.
What share of wells in Huerfano County are plugged?
240 of Huerfano County's 368 catalogued wells (65%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 44% across Colorado.
Which Colorado county has the most oil and gas wells?
Weld County has the most catalogued wells of any Colorado county on WellCensus (45,804); Huerfano County ranks 29th with 368.
How many companies operate wells in Huerfano County?
73 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Huerfano County, Colorado.
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About this data
Source: Colorado ECMC 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 Huerfano County, Colorado”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/colorado/huerfano (data as of October 10, 2026).