Oil & gas wells in Henry County, IL
262 catalogued wells in Henry County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Henry County, Illinois has 262 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 6 plugged & abandoned (2%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 56th of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.2% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
262
Active
0
Plugged
6
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Henry County?
0% of Henry County's wells are active, 19 percentage points below the Illinois share of 19%. 2% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Henry County; Illinois as a whole has 3,986. The remaining 256 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Henry 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 Henry County well is 3,863 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 Henry County compare with other Illinois counties?
Henry County has the 56th-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 Henry County?
27 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Henry County. 97% 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 Henry County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 12-073-00004 | Other status | Other type | Alco Oil & Gas Corp. |
| Lundgren 1 | 12-073-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Downs Benj |
| 1 | 12-073-00019 | Other status | Other type | Prospect |
| Hadley Floyd | 12-073-00028 | Other status | Other type | Swanson & Larson |
| Geneseo City | 12-073-00060 | Other status | Other type | Miller, J. P. Art. Well |
| 13 | 12-073-00094 | Other status | Other type | Coal Valley Mng Co |
| L-2 12 | 12-073-00098 | Other status | Other type | Warner Coal |
| Schroeder 3 | 12-073-00110 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Hoffstader Harold 1 | 12-073-00121 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Hoffstader Harold 2 | 12-073-00122 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Well API 12-073-00146 | 12-073-00146 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Well API 12-073-00147 | 12-073-00147 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Well API 12-073-00148 | 12-073-00148 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Well API 12-073-00149 | 12-073-00149 | Other status | Other type | Rock Is Coal Mining |
| Well API 12-073-00150 | 12-073-00150 | Other status | Other type | — |
| 8 | 12-073-00296 | Other status | Other type | Warner Coal |
| 11 | 12-073-00297 | Other status | Other type | Warner Coal |
| Searle B-Olson J | 12-073-00322 | Other status | Other type | Olson Julius |
| Lewis Alfred | 12-073-00323 | Other status | Other type | Olson Julius |
| South, E.A. 1 | 12-073-00360 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Davis Ralph E |
| Coulter 1 | 12-073-00362 | Other status | Other type | Pawnee Oil Corp. |
| Burgeson June 1 | 12-073-00364 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dettman Hans H |
| Hultgren N 1 | 12-073-00410 | Other status | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Brown T 1 | 12-073-00411 | Other status | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| McBee D 1 | 12-073-00412 | Other status | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 262 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 Henry County, IL?
Henry County, Illinois has 262 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 6 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Henry County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Henry County, Illinois.
What share of wells in Henry County are plugged?
6 of Henry County's 262 catalogued wells (2%) 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); Henry County ranks 56th with 262.
How many companies operate wells in Henry County?
27 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Henry 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 Henry County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/henry (data as of October 10, 2026).