Oil & gas wells in Massac County, IL
142 catalogued wells in Massac County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Massac County, Illinois has 142 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 7 plugged & abandoned (5%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 75th of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
142
Active
0
Plugged
7
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Massac County?
0% of Massac County's wells are active, 19 percentage points below the Illinois share of 19%. 5% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Massac County; Illinois as a whole has 3,986. The remaining 135 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Massac 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 Massac County well is 3,259 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 Massac County compare with other Illinois counties?
Massac County has the 75th-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 Massac County?
17 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Massac County. 96% 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 Massac County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foss 1 | 12-127-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Foss, Fred |
| Russell, G 1 | 12-127-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pielemeier Edwin W |
| F Moller 1 | 12-127-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Henners Edward |
| Davidson | 12-127-00005 | Other status | Other type | Wittig |
| Massac Metropolis | 12-127-00015 | Other status | Other type | Wittig, Paul |
| Stratmeyer | 12-127-00016 | Other status | Other type | Wittig, Paul |
| Drive-In-Theater | 12-127-00017 | Other status | Other type | Wittig, Paul |
| Webb Luke | 12-127-00020 | Other status | Other type | Wittig, Paul |
| Harvick 1 | 12-127-00032 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| McGhee, Harry 1 | 12-127-00069 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Marshall Drlg Co |
| Sommers 1 | 12-127-00119 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Owens, Curtis L. |
| Goines Delbert | 12-127-00179 | Other status | Other type | Sergent, William |
| West, Thomas Ivan & Edna 1-A | 12-127-20218 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ditterline, Milo |
| Schmidt, Henry 1 | 12-127-20219 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ditterline, Milo |
| McNairy Sand Study D-6 | 12-127-20231 | Other status | Other type | Illinois State Geological Survey |
| McNairy Sand Study D-1 | 12-127-20239 | Other status | Other type | IL State Geological Survey |
| McNairy Sand Study D-5 | 12-127-20241 | Other status | Other type | IL State Geological Survey |
| McNairy Sand Study D-3 | 12-127-20244 | Other status | Other type | IL State Geological Survey |
| McNairy Sand Study D-2 | 12-127-20245 | Other status | Other type | IL State Geological Survey |
| McNairy Sand Study D-4 | 12-127-20246 | Other status | Other type | IL State Geological Survey |
| Paducah Dam Site L-3 | 12-127-20311 | Other status | Other type | U S Army Corp Of Eng |
| Paducah Dam Site L-4 | 12-127-20312 | Other status | Other type | U S Army Corp Of Eng |
| Paducah Dam Site L-5 | 12-127-20313 | Other status | Other type | U S Army Corp Of Eng |
| Paducah Dam Site L-6 | 12-127-20314 | Other status | Other type | U S Army Corp Of Eng |
| Mathis 1 | 12-127-20777 | Other status | Other type | Illinois State Geological Survey |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 142 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 Massac County, IL?
Massac County, Illinois has 142 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 7 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Massac County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Massac County, Illinois.
What share of wells in Massac County are plugged?
7 of Massac County's 142 catalogued wells (5%) 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); Massac County ranks 75th with 142.
How many companies operate wells in Massac County?
17 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Massac 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 Massac County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/massac (data as of October 10, 2026).