Oil & gas wells in Franklin County, IL
3,351 catalogued wells in Franklin County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Franklin County, Illinois has 3,351 catalogued oil & gas wells: 572 active (17%), 2,331 plugged & abandoned (70%) and 73 documented orphans. It ranks 16th of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 2% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
3,351
Active
572
Plugged
2,331
Documented orphans
73
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Franklin County?
17% of Franklin County's wells are active, 2 percentage points below the Illinois share of 19%. 70% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. 11 wells (0.3%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 73 wells (2%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Illinois and 4% nationally. The remaining 364 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Franklin County?
By product class, 1,229 of the county's wells (37%) are oil wells, 81 (2%) gas wells and 431 (13%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 40% and the gas share 1%. The deepest total depth published for a Franklin County well is 22,854 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 Franklin County compare with other Illinois counties?
Franklin County has the 16th-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 17th in Illinois.
Who operates wells in Franklin County?
546 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Franklin 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 Franklin County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C W & F Coal 11 | 12-055-00652 | Other status | Oil | Shell Oil Company |
| Orient "E" 6-SWI | 12-055-00669 | Other status | Injection | Lampley Oil, Inc. |
| Orient E 7 | 12-055-00721 | Other status | Oil | Lampley, William E. |
| Orient E 5-SWI | 12-055-00729 | Other status | Injection | Lampley Oil, Inc. |
| Boner Harrison 1-A | 12-055-00855 | Other status | Oil | Bartmes, Ross |
| Nani 1-A | 12-055-00955 | Other status | Oil | Mosebach, Paul |
| Lindsay-Debernardi 1-F | 12-055-01154 | Other status | Oil | National Associated Petroleum Co. |
| Holmes 2-WI | 12-055-01269 | Other status | Injection | American Petroleum Technologies |
| Hubbard-Moore 2 | 12-055-01272 | Other status | Oil | Hanson Oil Company |
| Majdich 1-D | 12-055-01467 | Other status | Oil | National Associated Petroleum Co. |
| Zeigler Coal (Plumfield) 1 | 12-055-02061 | Other status | Oil | Gallagher, Victor R. |
| Zeigler Coal & Coke (Plumfield Acc) 2 | 12-055-02064 | Other status | Oil | Gallagher, Victor R. |
| Chris, Ray 2 | 12-055-23740 | Orphaned | Oil | Oil Producers Inc |
| Carraher 3 | 12-055-23425 | Other status | Oil | H & W Oil Co., Inc. |
| Old Ben Coal-Odum 7-G | 12-055-23486 | Other status | Oil | Great Plains Resources, Inc. |
| OBC - Bryant 8-G | 12-055-23489 | Other status | Other type | Farrar Oil Co., Inc. |
| Orient "C" 3-SWI | 12-055-23498 | Other status | Injection | Lampley Oil, Inc. |
| Old Ben-Mason 1 | 12-055-23783 | Other status | Other type | Schucker Explor., Inc. |
| Zeigler - Williams 4N23-15-3W | 12-055-23974 | Other status | Other type | Countrymark Energy Resources, LLC |
| Illinois-Minerals 7B | 12-055-24609 | Other status | Oil | Lampley Oil, Inc. |
| Orient M1-1 | 12-055-24896 | Other status | Gas | DTE Methane Resources, L.L.C. |
| Obc M25-1 | 12-055-24907 | Other status | Gas | DTE Methane Resources, L.L.C. |
| Orient M2-1 | 12-055-24910 | Other status | Gas | DTE Methane Resources, L.L.C. |
| Royal Talon 4-1 | 12-055-24926 | Other status | Other type | Walters, Mannon L. Inc. |
| Lexington 11-2 | 12-055-24972 | Other status | Gas | DTE Methane Resources, L.L.C. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 3,351 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 Franklin County, IL?
Franklin County, Illinois has 3,351 catalogued oil & gas wells: 572 active, 2,331 plugged and 73 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Franklin County?
73 wells in Franklin County, Illinois are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 17th-highest count among Illinois counties.
What share of wells in Franklin County are plugged?
2,331 of Franklin County's 3,351 catalogued wells (70%) 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); Franklin County ranks 16th with 3,351.
How many companies operate wells in Franklin County?
546 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Franklin 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 Franklin County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/franklin (data as of October 10, 2026).