Oil & gas wells in Benton County, IN
60 catalogued wells in Benton County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Benton County, Indiana has 60 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1 active (2%), 58 plugged & abandoned (97%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 68th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
60
Active
1
Plugged
58
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Benton County?
2% of Benton County's wells are active, 9 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 97% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Benton County; Indiana as a whole has 946. The remaining 1 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Benton 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 0% and the gas share 0%. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Benton County compare with other Indiana counties?
Benton County has the 68th-most catalogued wells of the 83 Indiana counties with at least 25. The median Indiana county on WellCensus has 194 wells. The largest, Gibson County, has 9,927.
Who operates wells in Benton County?
Indiana records come from the Indiana DNR Division of Oil & Gas registry, merged with the USGS documented-orphaned-wells inventory. Indiana doesn't use API numbers — wells are identified by their IGS ID.
Wells in Benton County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conner | IGS ID 133718 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Atkinson, Roy C. | IGS ID 133719 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Perry | IGS ID 133720 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fowler | IGS ID 133721 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Washburn | IGS ID 133722 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Moyers, Thelma S. | IGS ID 158050 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bartindale, H.E. | IGS ID 158051 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Roe, Lester & Doris | IGS ID 158052 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 158053 | IGS ID 158053 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Atkinson, Joseph | IGS ID 158054 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Van Hoy Farm Management | IGS ID 158055 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Van Hoy Farm Management | IGS ID 158056 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Van Hoy Farm Management | IGS ID 158057 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Van Hoy Farm Management | IGS ID 158058 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 158059 | IGS ID 158059 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 158060 | IGS ID 158060 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 158061 | IGS ID 158061 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| J.W. Eastburn | IGS ID 158062 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Chenoweth, R.P. | IGS ID 160614 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Town of Fowler | IGS ID 160615 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| James S. Hawkins | IGS ID 160616 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Getz, Rose; Henry; & John | IGS ID 160617 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Graff | IGS ID 160618 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Graf, Richard | IGS ID 160619 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160620 | IGS ID 160620 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 60 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 Benton County, IN?
Benton County, Indiana has 60 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1 active, 58 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Benton County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Benton County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Benton County are plugged?
58 of Benton County's 60 catalogued wells (97%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 84% across Indiana.
Which Indiana county has the most oil and gas wells?
Gibson County has the most catalogued wells of any Indiana county on WellCensus (9,927); Benton County ranks 68th with 60.
Nearby in the Indiana rankings
About this data
Source: Indiana DNR Division of Oil & Gas 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 Benton County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/benton (data as of October 10, 2026).