Oil & gas wells in Jasper County, IL
4,049 catalogued wells in Jasper County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Jasper County, Illinois has 4,049 catalogued oil & gas wells: 616 active (15%), 3,188 plugged & abandoned (79%) and 21 documented orphans. It ranks 12th of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 2% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
4,049
Active
616
Plugged
3,188
Documented orphans
21
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Jasper County?
15% of Jasper County's wells are active, 4 percentage points below the Illinois share of 19%. 79% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. 13 wells (0.3%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 21 wells (0.5%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Illinois and 4% nationally. The remaining 211 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Jasper County?
By product class, 2,179 of the county's wells (54%) are oil wells, 7 (0.2%) gas wells and 277 (7%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 40% and the gas share 1%. The deepest total depth published for a Jasper County well is 5,595 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 Jasper County compare with other Illinois counties?
Jasper County has the 12th-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 32nd in Illinois.
Who operates wells in Jasper County?
841 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Jasper 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 Jasper County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bigard | 12-079-00000 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Crews, D. B. | 12-079-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Braun, W. F. |
| Isley, H. 1 | 12-079-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Weinert, H. H. Estate |
| Cummins, Art 1 | 12-079-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Parrish Oil Prod., Inc. |
| Bowers 1 | 12-079-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Thompson Drilling Company |
| Huddleston, J. C. 1 | 12-079-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Johnson Oil Rfg Co |
| Union Central Life Ins. Co. 1 | 12-079-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Thompson Drilling Company |
| Mendenhall, Ed 1 | 12-079-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Johnson Oil Rfg Co |
| Higgins 1 | 12-079-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Oexner Dvlpmnt Co |
| Armistead Consol A-1 | 12-079-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Pure Oil Company |
| Cook, Era 1 | 12-079-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Sinclair Wyoming Oil & Gas |
| Cunningham Bertha A-1 | 12-079-00011 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Hulse, Otto 2 | 12-079-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gulf Refining Company |
| Reis-Ochs Consolidated 1 | 12-079-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Lebow & Pickens |
| Eubank, Ralph R. 1 | 12-079-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Tide Water Associated Oil Co. |
| Heap, Mark 1 | 12-079-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Gulf Refining Company |
| Douthit, Dora 1 | 12-079-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Great Lakes Oil&Gas |
| Birch, Dessie 1 | 12-079-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Sinclair Wyoming Oil & Gas |
| Needham, Elza 1 | 12-079-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Lee Drilling |
| Brown, Sam 1 | 12-079-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Jablonski Felix |
| Kincade, L. C. 2 | 12-079-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Walden, Welby M. |
| Ochs, P. 1 | 12-079-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hannaman & Elmore Oil Co. |
| Berry, R. L. 1 | 12-079-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Olson Oil Co |
| Johnoff 1 | 12-079-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mammoth Prod & Refg |
| Johnoff A-2 | 12-079-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mammoth Prod & Refg |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 4,049 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 Jasper County, IL?
Jasper County, Illinois has 4,049 catalogued oil & gas wells: 616 active, 3,188 plugged and 21 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Jasper County?
21 wells in Jasper County, Illinois are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 32nd-highest count among Illinois counties.
What share of wells in Jasper County are plugged?
3,188 of Jasper County's 4,049 catalogued wells (79%) 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); Jasper County ranks 12th with 4,049.
How many companies operate wells in Jasper County?
841 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Jasper 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 Jasper County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/jasper (data as of October 10, 2026).