Oil & gas wells in Bureau County, IL
85 catalogued wells in Bureau County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Bureau County, Illinois has 85 catalogued oil & gas wells: 16 active (19%), 35 plugged & abandoned (41%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 82nd of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.0% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
85
Active
16
Plugged
35
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Bureau County?
19% of Bureau County's wells are active, close to the Illinois share of 19%. 41% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Bureau County; Illinois as a whole has 3,986. The remaining 34 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Bureau County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 16 (19%) 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 Bureau County well is 2,645 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 Bureau County compare with other Illinois counties?
Bureau County has the 82nd-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 Bureau County?
33 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Bureau County. 98% 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 Bureau County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 12-011-00094 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Whitebreast Fuel |
| # "I" "I" | 12-011-00126 | Other status | Other type | Whitebreast Fuel Co. |
| 3b | 12-011-00128 | Other status | Other type | Whitebreast Fuel |
| Berry 1 | 12-011-00165 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Omanson, James V. |
| Naffzier Bros | 12-011-00168 | Active | Gas | Lutes Orville & Sons |
| Schlosser P 1 | 12-011-00186 | Active | Gas | Wright L |
| Elmore W L | 12-011-00191 | Active | Gas | Mid Continent Drlg |
| Harrington Jerry | 12-011-00193 | Active | Gas | Alco Oil & Gas Corp. |
| Albrecht A R | 12-011-00194 | Active | Gas | Albrecht, Alvin |
| Kane, Magoon 1 | 12-011-00203 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Fogerty, R.J. |
| Miller Estate 1 | 12-011-00206 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Lewis J R |
| Fuller | 12-011-00217 | Active | Gas | Humble Sam |
| Frantzen J C | 12-011-00222 | Active | Gas | Hummel |
| Schaefer Earnest | 12-011-00223 | Active | Gas | Hummel |
| Doty S L 1 | 12-011-00243 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Harrington Bros |
| Kidder 1 | 12-011-00269 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amboy Oil & Gas Co. |
| Guither, A. 1 | 12-011-00270 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Kerchner, Etal |
| Kuhnert Henry | 12-011-00272 | Active | Gas | Albrecht, Henry |
| Abrahams 1 | 12-011-00275 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Webb, F. E., Etal |
| Abraham 2 | 12-011-00276 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Webb, F. E., Etal |
| Baird, Frank J. 1 | 12-011-00287 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Wall, C. C. |
| Zelper, J. | 12-011-00288 | Active | Gas | No Company |
| Faber C T | 12-011-00309 | Active | Gas | Wood |
| Dm-2 | 12-011-00319 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Vickery Drilling Co., Inc. |
| Ti-1 | 12-011-00320 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Vickery Drilling Co., Inc. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 85 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 Bureau County, IL?
Bureau County, Illinois has 85 catalogued oil & gas wells: 16 active, 35 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Bureau County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Bureau County, Illinois.
What share of wells in Bureau County are plugged?
35 of Bureau County's 85 catalogued wells (41%) 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); Bureau County ranks 82nd with 85.
How many companies operate wells in Bureau County?
33 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Bureau 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 Bureau County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/bureau (data as of October 10, 2026).