Oil & gas wells in Alexander County, IL
67 catalogued wells in Alexander County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Alexander County, Illinois has 67 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 8 plugged & abandoned (12%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 89th of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.0% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
67
Active
0
Plugged
8
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Alexander County?
0% of Alexander County's wells are active, 19 percentage points below the Illinois share of 19%. 12% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Alexander County; Illinois as a whole has 3,986. The remaining 59 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Alexander County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 40% and the gas share 1%. The deepest total depth published for a Alexander County well is 2,101 ft, against 29,864 ft for Illinois as a whole. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Alexander County compare with other Illinois counties?
Alexander County has the 89th-most catalogued wells of the 98 Illinois counties with at least 25. The median Illinois county on WellCensus has 525 wells. The largest, Crawford County, has 22,961.
Who operates wells in Alexander County?
21 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Alexander 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 Alexander County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newell Glenn 1 | 12-003-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Stalcup H B |
| Smith 1 | 12-003-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Vick Oil Company |
| Ozark Farm Co | 12-003-00007 | Other status | Other type | Ozark Farm |
| Pearce, C. | 12-003-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Schneider Drlg |
| Vick, Roy | 12-003-00010 | Other status | Other type | Schneider Drlg |
| Missouri Pacific R.R. | 12-003-00012 | Other status | Other type | Wise C S |
| Ferris | 12-003-00014 | Other status | Other type | Schneider Drlg |
| Miller | 12-003-00015 | Other status | Other type | Schneider Drlg |
| Hodges, Geo | 12-003-00016 | Other status | Other type | Cairo Oil & Mineral |
| Vick, Clyde | 12-003-00019 | Other status | Other type | Schneider Drlg |
| Hodges 1 | 12-003-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Arnold & Middleton |
| Minton, Ralph W. 1 | 12-003-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Whitebread & Kipping |
| Minton, Ralph W. 2 | 12-003-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Whitebread & Kipping |
| Minton, Ralph W. 3 | 12-003-00023 | Other status | Other type | J. E. Rimer |
| Russek 1 | 12-003-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Midwestern Development Co. |
| Petty, Prindle And Vick 1 | 12-003-00026 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Prindle & Vick |
| Landsen Bros. | 12-003-00027 | Other status | Other type | Schneider Drlg |
| U.S. Forest Service | 12-003-00051 | Other status | Other type | Layne & Western Co. |
| U.S. Forest Service | 12-003-00053 | Other status | Other type | Layne Western Co., Inc. |
| U.S. Government | 12-003-20256 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Thebes Project THT-1 | 12-003-20576 | Other status | Other type | Union Pacific Resources - Minerals |
| Thebes Project THT-5 | 12-003-20577 | Other status | Other type | Union Pacific Resources - Minerals |
| Thebes Project THT-6 | 12-003-20578 | Other status | Other type | Union Pacific Resources - Minerals |
| Thebes Project THT-7 | 12-003-20579 | Other status | Other type | Union Pacific Resources - Minerals |
| Thebes Project THT-8 | 12-003-20580 | Other status | Other type | Union Pacific Resources - Minerals |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 67 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 Alexander County, IL?
Alexander County, Illinois has 67 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 8 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Alexander County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Alexander County, Illinois.
What share of wells in Alexander County are plugged?
8 of Alexander County's 67 catalogued wells (12%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 61% across Illinois.
Which Illinois county has the most oil and gas wells?
Crawford County has the most catalogued wells of any Illinois county on WellCensus (22,961); Alexander County ranks 89th with 67.
How many companies operate wells in Alexander County?
21 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Alexander County, Illinois.
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About this data
Source: Illinois State Geological Survey 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 Alexander County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/alexander (data as of October 10, 2026).