Oil & gas wells in Blackford County, IN
1,449 catalogued wells in Blackford County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Blackford County, Indiana has 1,449 catalogued oil & gas wells: 5 active (0.3%), 1,441 plugged & abandoned (99%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 14th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 2% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
1,449
Active
5
Plugged
1,441
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Blackford County?
0.3% of Blackford County's wells are active, 10 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 99% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (0.1%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Indiana and 4% nationally. The remaining 2 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Blackford 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 Blackford County compare with other Indiana counties?
Blackford County has the 14th-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. By documented orphans it ranks 34th in Indiana.
Who operates wells in Blackford 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 Blackford County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenn | IGS ID 133723 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Glenn | IGS ID 133724 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Light | IGS ID 133725 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133726 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133727 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133728 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133729 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133730 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133731 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133732 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133733 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133734 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133735 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133736 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133737 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133738 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133739 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133740 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133741 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133742 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell Oil Co. | IGS ID 133743 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133744 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133745 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carrell | IGS ID 133746 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bugh | IGS ID 133747 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 1,449 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 Blackford County, IN?
Blackford County, Indiana has 1,449 catalogued oil & gas wells: 5 active, 1,441 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Blackford County?
1 wells in Blackford County, Indiana are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 34th-highest count among Indiana counties.
What share of wells in Blackford County are plugged?
1,441 of Blackford County's 1,449 catalogued wells (99%) 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); Blackford County ranks 14th with 1,449.
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 Blackford County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/blackford (data as of October 10, 2026).