Oil & gas wells in Madison County, IL
1,743 catalogued wells in Madison County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Madison County, Illinois has 1,743 catalogued oil & gas wells: 279 active (16%), 1,181 plugged & abandoned (68%) and 6 documented orphans. It ranks 24th of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 1.0% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
1,743
Active
279
Plugged
1,181
Documented orphans
6
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Madison County?
16% of Madison County's wells are active, 3 percentage points below the Illinois share of 19%. 68% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. 9 wells (0.5%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 6 wells (0.3%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Illinois and 4% nationally. The remaining 268 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Madison County?
By product class, 365 of the county's wells (21%) are oil wells, 10 (0.6%) gas wells and 133 (8%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 40% and the gas share 1%. The deepest total depth published for a Madison County well is 5,213 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 Madison County compare with other Illinois counties?
Madison County has the 24th-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 40th in Illinois.
Who operates wells in Madison County?
461 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Madison 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 Madison County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isaacs, Albert | 12-119-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Sutherland Drlg Co |
| Sullivan Machinery Company 6 | 12-119-00038 | Other status | Other type | Simpson D |
| Sullivan Machinery Company 5 | 12-119-00039 | Other status | Other type | Simpson D |
| Schrumpf,Hy. | 12-119-00086 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Holden Oil Co |
| Wick, Joseph 1 | 12-119-00087 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Holden Oil Co |
| Keller 1 | 12-119-00099 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Granite City Oil |
| Keller 2 | 12-119-00100 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Granite City Oil |
| Keller, Ferdinand,Sr. 3 | 12-119-00101 | Active | Oil | Madison Oil & Gas |
| Stifel, Peter 1 | 12-119-00102 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ohio Oil Co., The |
| Holden, Ed 1 | 12-119-00108 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Holden Oil Co |
| 1 | 12-119-00114 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Decamp Coal Mining |
| Watts, T.G. 2 | 12-119-00136 | Other status | Other type | Watts |
| Watts L G 3 | 12-119-00137 | Other status | Other type | Watts |
| Alton Brick Co. 1 | 12-119-00146 | Other status | Other type | Longyear E J Explor |
| Albers, Dick 4 | 12-119-00154 | Other status | Other type | Truax Traer Coal Co. |
| Stormer, Henry 1 | 12-119-00257 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Spivey, Marshall |
| Well API 12-119-00310 | 12-119-00310 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Weder August | 12-119-00334 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Redding Geo | 12-119-00337 | Other status | Other type | Stocher |
| Mayer Louis | 12-119-00338 | Other status | Other type | Haverstick C W |
| Rinkel Geo | 12-119-00342 | Other status | Other type | Haverstick C W |
| Grusewelle 1 | 12-119-00343 | Other status | Other type | Stevens Ed |
| Tegtmeier Fred | 12-119-00344 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Keller, Mary 1 | 12-119-00348 | Active | Oil | Simmel, Louis C. |
| Kellar 4 | 12-119-00349 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Madison Oil & Gas |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 1,743 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 Madison County, IL?
Madison County, Illinois has 1,743 catalogued oil & gas wells: 279 active, 1,181 plugged and 6 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Madison County?
6 wells in Madison County, Illinois are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 40th-highest count among Illinois counties.
What share of wells in Madison County are plugged?
1,181 of Madison County's 1,743 catalogued wells (68%) 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); Madison County ranks 24th with 1,743.
How many companies operate wells in Madison County?
461 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Madison 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 Madison County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/madison (data as of October 10, 2026).