Oil & gas wells in Mclean County, IL
609 catalogued wells in Mclean County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Mclean County, Illinois has 609 catalogued oil & gas wells: 144 active (24%), 383 plugged & abandoned (63%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 45th of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.3% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
609
Active
144
Plugged
383
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Mclean County?
24% of Mclean County's wells are active, 4 percentage points above the Illinois share of 19%. 63% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. 2 wells (0.3%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Mclean County; Illinois as a whole has 3,986. The remaining 80 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Mclean County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 38 (6%) gas wells and 109 (18%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 40% and the gas share 1%. The deepest total depth published for a Mclean County well is 5,938 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 Mclean County compare with other Illinois counties?
Mclean County has the 45th-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 Mclean County?
109 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Mclean 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 Mclean County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City | 12-113-00008 | Other status | Other type | Alco Oil & Gas Corp. |
| Waldon 2 | 12-113-00009 | Other status | Other type | Alco Oil & Gas Corp. |
| Crawford, E. 1 | 12-113-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Funks Grove Oil-Gas |
| Hunter 1 | 12-113-00048 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ring & Kinsell Oil C |
| 8-M | 12-113-00049 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| 20-M | 12-113-00050 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Roggy, E. E. 1 | 12-113-00052 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Rust, Adlai 1 | 12-113-00053 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Scott, W. P. 1 | 12-113-00054 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Wollrab, F.W. 1 | 12-113-00055 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Williams, C. U. 1 | 12-113-00056 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Trenkle, R. E. 1 | 12-113-00057 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Munster, H. P. 1 | 12-113-00058 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Crumbaugh, L. A. 1 | 12-113-00059 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Bane, Eugene 1 | 12-113-00061 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Pepsi Co | 12-113-00066 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Bozarth, J. O. 1 | 12-113-00067 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Erion, E. 1 | 12-113-00068 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill |
| Hall, H. 1 | 12-113-00069 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Honor, L. 1 | 12-113-00070 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Mecherle, G. J. 1 | 12-113-00071 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Prosser, A.l. 1 | 12-113-00072 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Schroeder, E. 1 | 12-113-00073 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Mining |
| Silvey, E. H. 1 | 12-113-00074 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
| Simpson, B. G. 1 | 12-113-00075 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Hill Gas Company |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 609 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 Mclean County, IL?
Mclean County, Illinois has 609 catalogued oil & gas wells: 144 active, 383 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Mclean County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Mclean County, Illinois.
What share of wells in Mclean County are plugged?
383 of Mclean County's 609 catalogued wells (63%) 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); Mclean County ranks 45th with 609.
How many companies operate wells in Mclean County?
109 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Mclean 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 Mclean County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/mclean (data as of October 10, 2026).