Oil & gas wells in Brown County, IL
1,556 catalogued wells in Brown County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Brown County, Illinois has 1,556 catalogued oil & gas wells: 126 active (8%), 1,204 plugged & abandoned (77%) and 64 documented orphans. It ranks 27th of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.9% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
1,556
Active
126
Plugged
1,204
Documented orphans
64
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Brown County?
8% of Brown County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Illinois share of 19%. 77% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. 6 wells (0.4%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 64 wells (4%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Illinois and 4% nationally. The remaining 156 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Brown County?
By product class, 261 of the county's wells (17%) are oil wells, 8 (0.5%) gas wells and 28 (2%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 40% and the gas share 1%. The deepest total depth published for a Brown County well is 2,330 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 Brown County compare with other Illinois counties?
Brown County has the 27th-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. By documented orphans it ranks 18th in Illinois.
Who operates wells in Brown County?
403 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Brown 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 Brown County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Well API 12-007-90030 | 12-007-90030 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 12-007-90039 | 12-007-90039 | Other status | Unknown | — |
| May Well 1 | 12-009-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pea Ridge Oil & Gas |
| Worth 1 | 12-009-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Goad, E. E. |
| Logsdon, Doris 1 | 12-009-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Williams, Clyde D. |
| Parker, Flynt 1 | 12-009-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | G & W Oil Co. |
| Bordenkricher, Charles 1 | 12-009-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Vette, Walter |
| Armel 1 | 12-009-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Williams, Clyde D. |
| Princeville Stone Company 1 | 12-009-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Markwell Ray |
| Kerley, Claude 1 | 12-009-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Neal, A. W. |
| Langan 1 | 12-009-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Callihan, Mike |
| Salrin 1 | 12-009-00026 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Aleshire & Groves |
| Ripley 1 | 12-009-00029 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Fay W |
| Koch 1 | 12-009-00030 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Levine, Sidney M. |
| Kroft 1 | 12-009-00031 | Other status | Other type | Jackson, William |
| Kroft 2 | 12-009-00032 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Levine, Sidney M. |
| Monahan, John 1 | 12-009-00033 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Marathon Oil Company |
| May, Thomas 2 | 12-009-00035 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pea Ridge Oil & Gas |
| Adolf H 1 | 12-009-00037 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Fell Oil Trust Co |
| Thomas, J. #1 1 | 12-009-00038 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Fell Oil Trust Co |
| Thomas, J. 2 | 12-009-00039 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Fell Oil Trust Co |
| Thomas, W.J. 1 | 12-009-00040 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Crandall & Hunt Oil |
| Parke, Joseph & Lizzie 1 | 12-009-00043 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pure Oil Company |
| Cox, G. Elmer 1 | 12-009-00044 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Marathon Oil Company |
| Mt. Sterling City Well | 12-009-00045 | Other status | Other type | Simmons Jos |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 1,556 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 Brown County, IL?
Brown County, Illinois has 1,556 catalogued oil & gas wells: 126 active, 1,204 plugged and 64 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Brown County?
64 wells in Brown County, Illinois are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 18th-highest count among Illinois counties.
What share of wells in Brown County are plugged?
1,204 of Brown County's 1,556 catalogued wells (77%) 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); Brown County ranks 27th with 1,556.
How many companies operate wells in Brown County?
403 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Brown 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 Brown County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/brown (data as of October 10, 2026).