Oil & gas wells in Wabash County, IL
7,548 catalogued wells in Wabash County, Illinois, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Wabash County, Illinois has 7,548 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,509 active (20%), 5,304 plugged & abandoned (70%) and 50 documented orphans. It ranks 6th of the 98 Illinois counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 4% of the state's 174,478 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
7,548
Active
1,509
Plugged
5,304
Documented orphans
50
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Wabash County?
20% of Wabash County's wells are active, close to the Illinois share of 19%. 70% are plugged & abandoned, against 61% statewide and 47% nationally. 33 wells (0.4%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 50 wells (0.7%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Illinois and 4% nationally. The remaining 652 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Wabash County?
By product class, 3,669 of the county's wells (49%) are oil wells, 13 (0.2%) gas wells and 713 (9%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 40% and the gas share 1%. The deepest total depth published for a Wabash County well is 7,060 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 Wabash County compare with other Illinois counties?
Wabash County has the 6th-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 20th in Illinois.
Who operates wells in Wabash County?
1,299 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Wabash 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 Wabash County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Well API 12-118-50518 | 12-118-50518 | Other status | Unknown | — |
| Reed V M | 12-185-00003 | Other status | Other type | Potts, E. L. & Sons |
| Buchanan Harrison | 12-185-00013 | Other status | Other type | Alco Oil & Gas Corp. |
| Wolf Bros | 12-185-00021 | Other status | Other type | Potts, E. L. & Sons |
| Rosenbarger P D | 12-185-00034 | Other status | Other type | Potts, E. L. & Sons |
| Liddle, Dewey 3 | 12-185-00036 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Houchins Drilling Co. |
| Snyder Grocery | 12-185-00038 | Other status | Other type | Potts |
| Beall Laura 3 | 12-185-00048 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | D & H Drilling |
| Steckler E P 1B | 12-185-00049 | Active | Oil | Tide Water Associated Oil Co. |
| King Mable | 12-185-00050 | Other status | Other type | Goodwin Sam |
| Carlson H C | 12-185-00051 | Other status | Other type | Potts, Nick |
| Lovellette H R 1 | 12-185-00052 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Smokey Oil Co. |
| Bump A P 7 | 12-185-00053 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Mabee Oil & Gas Company |
| Raber-Kurtz Et Al 2 | 12-185-00054 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Hocking Oil Company, Inc. |
| Schultz A E 1 | 12-185-00055 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Mabee Oil & Gas Company |
| Grace Levi | 12-185-00057 | Other status | Other type | Potts, E. L. & Sons |
| Methodist Church 1 | 12-185-00058 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Kitley M I |
| Shultz A E A-8 | 12-185-00059 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Continental Oil Company |
| Baston - Mitchell - S. Keensburg 8-1 | 12-185-00060 | Active | Injection | Getty Oil Company |
| Cowling Elmira F 1 | 12-185-00061 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Tide Water Associated Oil Co. |
| Schaefer, W.H. Heirs 1 | 12-185-00063 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ryan Oil Company |
| Collinson Heirs 1 | 12-185-00067 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Collison Farm Oil |
| Elkins, D. Tr. 20 1 | 12-185-00078 | Other status | Oil | B & H Producing, Inc. |
| Shultz, C.E. Tr 7 1 | 12-185-00079 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Texaco, Inc. |
| Shultz, B. & A. 2 | 12-185-00080 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Howell & Fotiades |
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Frequently asked questions
How many oil and gas wells are in Wabash County, IL?
Wabash County, Illinois has 7,548 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,509 active, 5,304 plugged and 50 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Wabash County?
50 wells in Wabash County, Illinois are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 20th-highest count among Illinois counties.
What share of wells in Wabash County are plugged?
5,304 of Wabash County's 7,548 catalogued wells (70%) 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); Wabash County ranks 6th with 7,548.
How many companies operate wells in Wabash County?
1,299 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Wabash 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 Wabash County, Illinois”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/illinois/wabash (data as of October 10, 2026).