Oil & gas wells in Lincoln County, CO
838 catalogued wells in Lincoln County, Colorado, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Lincoln County, Colorado has 838 catalogued oil & gas wells: 68 active (8%), 442 plugged & abandoned (53%) and 5 documented orphans. It ranks 18th of the 47 Colorado counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.7% of the state's 124,327 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
838
Active
68
Plugged
442
Documented orphans
5
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Lincoln County?
8% of Lincoln County's wells are active, 21 percentage points below the Colorado share of 29%. 53% are plugged & abandoned, against 44% statewide and 47% nationally. 37 wells (4%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 5 wells (0.6%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Colorado and 4% nationally. The remaining 286 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Lincoln County?
By product class, 181 of the county's wells (22%) are oil wells, 8 (1.0%) 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 Lincoln County well is 10,451 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 Lincoln County compare with other Colorado counties?
Lincoln County has the 18th-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 20th in Colorado.
Who operates wells in Lincoln County?
149 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Tudor | 05-073-05001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Utah Southern Oil Co |
| 1 Hancock | 05-073-05003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unknown |
| 1 Anderson | 05-073-05004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mclaughlin* C T |
| 1 Hodgson | 05-073-05005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mclaughlin* C T |
| 1 Miller | 05-073-05006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mclaughlin* C T |
| 42-26 State | 05-073-05007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Anderson* F R |
| 1 Union Pacific - Smith | 05-073-05008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gulf Oil Corporation |
| 1 Lemay | 05-073-05009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Allison Estate* B F |
| 1-A Betty B Newell | 05-073-05010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hunt*h.L. |
| 1 Newell | 05-073-05011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hunt*h.L. |
| 1 Westlund | 05-073-05012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Big Basin Oil Inc |
| 1 Watson | 05-073-05013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Old Operators - Status Unknown |
| 1 State | 05-073-05014 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| 1 Union Pacific | 05-073-05015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dyer* J G |
| 1 White | 05-073-05016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | True & Brown Oil Producers |
| 2 White | 05-073-05017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | True & Brown Oil Producers |
| 1 Plains Expl Co | 05-073-05018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Siegel Et Al |
| 1 Claussen | 05-073-05019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Kingwood Oil Co |
| 1-6 State-Limon | 05-073-05020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Murphy Oil Corporation |
| 1-6 Bennett | 05-073-05021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Murphy Oil Corporation |
| 1-4 State-Limon | 05-073-05022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Murphy Oil Corporation |
| 1-36 State-Limon | 05-073-05023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Murphy Oil Co |
| 1-30 State-Limon | 05-073-05024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Murphy Oil Co |
| 1 Stramp | 05-073-05025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Lohmann Drilling Company |
| 1-23 State-Limon | 05-073-05026 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Murphy Oil Co |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 838 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 Lincoln County, CO?
Lincoln County, Colorado has 838 catalogued oil & gas wells: 68 active, 442 plugged and 5 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Lincoln County?
5 wells in Lincoln County, Colorado are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 20th-highest count among Colorado counties.
What share of wells in Lincoln County are plugged?
442 of Lincoln County's 838 catalogued wells (53%) 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); Lincoln County ranks 18th with 838.
How many companies operate wells in Lincoln County?
149 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County, Colorado”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/colorado/lincoln (data as of October 10, 2026).