Oil & gas wells in Lee County, IL
83 catalogued wells in Lee County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Lee County, Illinois has 83 catalogued oil & gas wells: 5 active (6%), 36 plugged & abandoned (43%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 84th of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.0% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
83
Active
5
Plugged
36
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Lee County?
6% of Lee County's wells are active, 13 percentage points below the Illinois share of 19%. 43% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Lee County; Illinois as a whole has 3,986. The remaining 42 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Lee County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 5 (6%) 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 Lee County well is 3,772 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 Lee County compare with other Illinois counties?
Lee County has the 84th-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 Lee County?
22 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Lee County. 89% 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 Lee County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child, W. P. 1 | 12-103-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Stelle, John Associates |
| Delhotal, W. 1 | 12-103-00064 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Delhotal, D. 1 | 12-103-00065 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Sanders 1 | 12-103-00066 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Schafer, A. M. 1 | 12-103-00069 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Kirchhofer 1 | 12-103-00070 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Schafer, W. F. 1 | 12-103-00071 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Vaessen, R. 1 | 12-103-00076 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Bonnell, C. 1 | 12-103-00077 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Armstrong 1 | 12-103-00078 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Cr-8 | 12-103-00080 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Vickery Drlg. Co., Inc. |
| Wb-4 | 12-103-00081 | Other status | Other type | Vickery Drlg. Co., Inc. |
| Lachat, J. 2 | 12-103-00082 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Smith, F. 1 | 12-103-00083 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Dinges, R. 1 | 12-103-00084 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Lachat, J. 1 | 12-103-00085 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America |
| Wb-3 | 12-103-00086 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Vickery Drlg. Co., Inc. |
| Wb-6 | 12-103-00087 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Vickery Drlg. Co., Inc. |
| Wb-2 | 12-103-00088 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Vickery Drlg. Co., Inc. |
| McElroy, John B. 1 | 12-103-00180 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amboy Oil & Gas Co. |
| Dixon, Fannie | 12-103-00181 | Other status | Other type | Iten & Diebold |
| Barnes 1 | 12-103-00488 | Other status | Other type | Otto, E. L. |
| As-2 | 12-103-20589 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Northern Illinois Gas Co. |
| As-1 | 12-103-20590 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Northern Illinois Gas Co. |
| As-4 | 12-103-20591 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Northern Illinois Gas Co. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 83 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 Lee County, IL?
Lee County, Illinois has 83 catalogued oil & gas wells: 5 active, 36 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Lee County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Lee County, Illinois.
What share of wells in Lee County are plugged?
36 of Lee County's 83 catalogued wells (43%) 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); Lee County ranks 84th with 83.
How many companies operate wells in Lee County?
22 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Lee 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 Lee County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/lee (data as of October 10, 2026).