Oil & gas wells in Vermilion County, IL
199 catalogued wells in Vermilion County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Vermilion County, Illinois has 199 catalogued oil & gas wells: 2 active (1%), 82 plugged & abandoned (41%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 63rd of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
199
Active
2
Plugged
82
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Vermilion County?
1% of Vermilion County's wells are active, 18 percentage points below the Illinois share of 19%. 41% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (0.5%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Illinois and 4% nationally. The remaining 114 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Vermilion County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 2 (1%) 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 Vermilion County well is 6,684 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 Vermilion County compare with other Illinois counties?
Vermilion County has the 63rd-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 53rd in Illinois.
Who operates wells in Vermilion County?
63 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Vermilion County. 97% 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 Vermilion County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett | 12-183-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Coy |
| Trisler 1 | 12-183-00177 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Sylvestre R N |
| Foreman, Newt 1 | 12-183-00180 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Myers A M Etal |
| Well API 12-183-00185 | 12-183-00185 | Other status | Other type | Chicago & Eastern IL RR |
| 4 (Or #11) | 12-183-00215 | Other status | Other type | Owner |
| Well API 12-183-00303 | 12-183-00303 | Other status | Other type | IL Oil Syndicate |
| Starr, H.E. 12 | 12-183-00339 | Other status | Other type | Big Four RR |
| Laflin, John 3 | 12-183-00400 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hurst, Robert |
| Butts, Jerry | 12-183-00438 | Other status | Other type | Alco Oil & Gas Corp. |
| Well API 12-183-00460 | 12-183-00460 | Other status | Other type | Wilson, Howard K. |
| Ruddy, Tom | 12-183-00491 | Other status | Other type | Strohecker, Etal |
| Ruddick, Martha | 12-183-00492 | Other status | Other type | Percy H Carr |
| Veteran's Adminstration | 12-183-00579 | Other status | Other type | Winks A L |
| 5 | 12-183-00936 | Other status | Other type | Grape Creek Mng |
| 2 | 12-183-00938 | Other status | Other type | Grape Creek Mng |
| 1 | 12-183-00939 | Other status | Other type | Grape Creek Mng |
| 343f | 12-183-01013 | Other status | Other type | Ayrshire Collieries Corp |
| Test Hole 323F | 12-183-01033 | Other status | Other type | Ayrshire Collieries Corp |
| Allison, David 2 | 12-183-01077 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Leyh, LaVerne H. |
| Allison, David 1 | 12-183-01078 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Leyh LaVerne H |
| Smith, W. & Willison, L. 1 | 12-183-01080 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mansfield Prod |
| Catlett Estate 1 | 12-183-01081 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Stamer, Horn & Faulkner |
| Finley, Henry C. 1 | 12-183-01096 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Jet Oil Company |
| Miller, Everett 1 | 12-183-01097 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Lucht Allen P |
| Bussard 1 | 12-183-01098 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hurst, Robert |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 199 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 Vermilion County, IL?
Vermilion County, Illinois has 199 catalogued oil & gas wells: 2 active, 82 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Vermilion County?
1 wells in Vermilion County, Illinois are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 53rd-highest count among Illinois counties.
What share of wells in Vermilion County are plugged?
82 of Vermilion County's 199 catalogued wells (41%) 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); Vermilion County ranks 63rd with 199.
How many companies operate wells in Vermilion County?
63 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Vermilion 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 Vermilion County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/vermilion (data as of October 10, 2026).