Oil & gas wells in Kit Carson County, CO
398 catalogued wells in Kit Carson County, Colorado, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Kit Carson County, Colorado has 398 catalogued oil & gas wells: 9 active (2%), 346 plugged & abandoned (87%) and 3 documented orphans. It ranks 28th of the 47 Colorado counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.3% of the state's 124,327 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
398
Active
9
Plugged
346
Documented orphans
3
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Kit Carson County?
2% of Kit Carson County's wells are active, 27 percentage points below the Colorado share of 29%. 87% are plugged & abandoned, against 44% statewide and 47% nationally. 2 wells (0.5%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 3 wells (0.8%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Colorado and 4% nationally. The remaining 38 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Kit Carson County?
By product class, 22 of the county's wells (6%) are oil wells, 34 (9%) 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 Kit Carson County well is 9,270 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 Kit Carson County compare with other Colorado counties?
Kit Carson County has the 28th-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 28th in Colorado.
Who operates wells in Kit Carson County?
112 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Kit Carson 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 Kit Carson County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Virgil Glunt | 05-063-05001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Honolulu Exp & Drlg Corp |
| 1 Lowe 1 | 05-063-05002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Conoco Phillips Company |
| 1 C D Reed | 05-063-05003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unknown |
| 1 Fee | 05-063-05004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unknown |
| 1 Reitman | 05-063-05005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Royster* Harry |
| 1 S G Mcconnell | 05-063-05006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Honolulu Exp & Drlg Corp |
| 1 Baughman | 05-063-05007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Howard Chamlee And Carl J Westlund Inc |
| 1 Holfus & Park | 05-063-05008 | Other status | Other type | Hammer* O H |
| 1 Wilkens | 05-063-05009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Creslenn Oil Co |
| 1 Armstrong | 05-063-05010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Howard Chamlee And Carl J Westlund Inc |
| 1 S A Hornung (Tract 1) | 05-063-05011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amerada Petroleum Corporation |
| 1 L A Becker | 05-063-05012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amerada Petroleum Corporation |
| 1 Einspahr | 05-063-05013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Katz Oil Company |
| 1 Davis | 05-063-05014 | Other status | Other type | Hammer* O H |
| 1 Leoffler | 05-063-05015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Continental Oil Company |
| 1 (Owp) Five Fields | 05-063-05016 | Orphaned | Other type | Five Fields Oil Company* The |
| 1 Fuller | 05-063-05017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gaddis* W.H. |
| 1 (Owp) State | 05-063-05018 | Orphaned | Other type | Plains Ex |
| 1 Powell | 05-063-05019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Continental Oil Company |
| 1 Brachtenbach | 05-063-05020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ward & Son* Alfred |
| A-1 Baughman | 05-063-05021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Roden, Darden, & Mcrae, Ltd |
| 1 Edmond | 05-063-05022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Falcon Seaboard Drlg Co |
| 1 Willey | 05-063-05023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mcdannald Oil Company |
| 1 Seaboard-D F Morrow | 05-063-05024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Seaboard Oil Company |
| 1-A R L Edmondson | 05-063-05025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Deep Rock Oil Corporation |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 398 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 Kit Carson County, CO?
Kit Carson County, Colorado has 398 catalogued oil & gas wells: 9 active, 346 plugged and 3 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Kit Carson County?
3 wells in Kit Carson County, Colorado are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 28th-highest count among Colorado counties.
What share of wells in Kit Carson County are plugged?
346 of Kit Carson County's 398 catalogued wells (87%) 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); Kit Carson County ranks 28th with 398.
How many companies operate wells in Kit Carson County?
112 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Kit Carson 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 Kit Carson County, Colorado”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/colorado/kit-carson (data as of October 10, 2026).