Oil & gas wells in Cass County, IL
46 catalogued wells in Cass County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Cass County, Illinois has 46 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 40 plugged & abandoned (87%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 95th of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.0% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
46
Active
0
Plugged
40
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Cass County?
0% of Cass County's wells are active, 19 percentage points below the Illinois share of 19%. 87% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Cass County; Illinois as a whole has 3,986. The remaining 6 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Cass 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 Cass County well is 2,311 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 Cass County compare with other Illinois counties?
Cass County has the 95th-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 Cass County?
34 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Cass 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 Cass County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stribling, L. E. 1 | 12-017-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Brown, E. J. |
| Sinclair, Rena Crum | 12-017-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Alco Oil & Gas Corp. |
| Lambert Brothers 1 | 12-017-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | V. S. & S. Drilling Co. |
| Krohe, 1 | 12-017-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Zuercher, Joseph |
| Stribling 1 | 12-017-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Beckham, Dwight Oil Co. |
| Adkins, A. E. 1 | 12-017-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Defratis & Assc. |
| Virginia Firehouse Well | 12-017-00034 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Brant & Co. Drlrs. |
| Savage, Lew | 12-017-00041 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Alco Oil & Gas Corp. |
| Maslin, James 1 | 12-017-00042 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cass Comm Oil Co |
| Launer 1 | 12-017-00062 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cusner, J. W. & McDowell, E. W. |
| DeGrott, S. 1 | 12-017-00063 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Fulk, Perry & Fulk, A. |
| Meier, Albert 1 | 12-017-00064 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cass Oil Enterprise |
| Funk, Victor 1 | 12-017-00065 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cass Oil Enterprise |
| Morris 1 | 12-017-00066 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Arthalony, Leo E. |
| Adkins 1 | 12-017-00068 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Armstrong, H. L. |
| Carls, Gus A. 1 | 12-017-00069 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Vette, W. |
| Morris 1 | 12-017-00070 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hagen, Lowell & Leon |
| Edwards, Vernon 1 | 12-017-00072 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | McElyea, Paul W. |
| Kruhe 1 | 12-017-00073 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Krohe, Philip |
| Krohe, P. 2 | 12-017-00076 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Krohe, Philip |
| Well API 12-017-00090 | 12-017-00090 | Other status | Other type | O & M Ry Co |
| Ma-2 | 12-017-00091 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Central IL Light Co. |
| (Leahy) MA-5 | 12-017-00093 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Central IL Light Co. |
| Hardwick 1 | 12-017-20298 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Kane, Douglas |
| Turner 1 | 12-017-20373 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | R & R Resources, Inc. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 46 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 Cass County, IL?
Cass County, Illinois has 46 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 40 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Cass County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Cass County, Illinois.
What share of wells in Cass County are plugged?
40 of Cass County's 46 catalogued wells (87%) 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); Cass County ranks 95th with 46.
How many companies operate wells in Cass County?
34 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Cass 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 Cass County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/cass (data as of October 10, 2026).