Oil & gas wells in Piatt County, IL
190 catalogued wells in Piatt County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Piatt County, Illinois has 190 catalogued oil & gas wells: 4 active (2%), 85 plugged & abandoned (45%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 65th of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
190
Active
4
Plugged
85
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Piatt County?
2% of Piatt County's wells are active, 17 percentage points below the Illinois share of 19%. 45% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Piatt County; Illinois as a whole has 3,986. The remaining 101 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Piatt County?
By product class, 4 of the county's wells (2%) are oil wells, 4 (2%) gas wells and 1 (0.5%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 40% and the gas share 1%. The deepest total depth published for a Piatt County well is 4,655 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 Piatt County compare with other Illinois counties?
Piatt County has the 65th-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 Piatt County?
63 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Piatt County. 92% 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 Piatt County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bement City | 12-147-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Meister Brothers |
| Baker, Gussie 1 | 12-147-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pray, Max Drlg. Co. |
| Deland City Well | 12-147-00005 | Other status | Other type | Kersey Omer |
| Wagoner Est 1 | 12-147-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Myers, Theo |
| Kordite Company | 12-147-00008 | Other status | Other type | Warren & Van Praag |
| Yoder 1 | 12-147-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unger, John |
| Walsh, Thomas etal "A"1 | 12-147-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | National Associated Petroleum Co. |
| Gilbert 1 | 12-147-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Robison, H. F. |
| Cisco 2-50 | 12-147-00012 | Other status | Other type | Alco Oil & Gas Corp. |
| Miller, Alvin C. 1 | 12-147-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Richardson, M. H. |
| Grady W. J. 1 | 12-147-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Myers, Theo |
| Shively, S. C. 1 | 12-147-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unger, John |
| Swartz, L. D. 2 | 12-147-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Walden Welby M |
| Davis, Paul 1 | 12-147-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Haines, D. C. |
| Peterson, Elbert 1 | 12-147-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dotson Charles W |
| Shively, S. L. 2 | 12-147-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dotson Charles W |
| Evans, Kenneth E. 1 | 12-147-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Myers, Theo |
| Hamman 1 | 12-147-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Myers, Theodore F. |
| Kelley, Edna B. 1 | 12-147-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Richardson, E. V. |
| Randall 1 | 12-147-00026 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Larson Arthur |
| Valentine 1 | 12-147-00027 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Myers, Theodore F. |
| Woodward #1 1 | 12-147-00028 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Jay-Vee Development Corp. |
| Groff 1 | 12-147-00029 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Grady, W. J. 1 | 12-147-00030 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hill Production Co. |
| Kirkland 1 | 12-147-00031 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Myers, Theo |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 190 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 Piatt County, IL?
Piatt County, Illinois has 190 catalogued oil & gas wells: 4 active, 85 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Piatt County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Piatt County, Illinois.
What share of wells in Piatt County are plugged?
85 of Piatt County's 190 catalogued wells (45%) 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); Piatt County ranks 65th with 190.
How many companies operate wells in Piatt County?
63 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Piatt 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 Piatt County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/piatt (data as of October 10, 2026).