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Oil & gas wells in Boone County, IN

96 catalogued wells in Boone County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Boone County, Indiana has 96 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 96 plugged & abandoned (100%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 59th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.

Catalogued wells

96

Active

0

Plugged

96

Documented orphans

0

What is the status of oil and gas wells in Boone County?

0% of Boone County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 100% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Boone County; Indiana as a whole has 946.

What kinds of wells are in Boone 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 Boone County compare with other Indiana counties?

Boone County has the 59th-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 Boone 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.

Oil & gas wells in Boone County, IN
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
C.C.C & St. Louis RailroadIGS ID 126646Plugged & abandonedOther type—
OttingerIGS ID 126647Plugged & abandonedOther type—
CulverIGS ID 126649Plugged & abandonedOther type—
BrosherIGS ID 126656Plugged & abandonedOther type—
WoodallIGS ID 126657Plugged & abandonedOther type—
ChambersIGS ID 126660Plugged & abandonedOther type—
GerdisIGS ID 126661Plugged & abandonedOther type—
WoodrumIGS ID 126662Plugged & abandonedOther type—
NeffIGS ID 126663Plugged & abandonedOther type—
EastesIGS ID 126664Plugged & abandonedOther type—
HenryIGS ID 126665Plugged & abandonedOther type—
Indiana Gas Co. - Lebanon Propane-Air PlantIGS ID 126721Plugged & abandonedOther type—
Indiana Gas Co. - Lebanon Propane-Air PlantIGS ID 126722Plugged & abandonedOther type—
BenningtonIGS ID 126723Plugged & abandonedOther type—
SchoolerIGS ID 126724Plugged & abandonedOther type—
UhlerIGS ID 126725Plugged & abandonedOther type—
UhlerIGS ID 126726Plugged & abandonedOther type—
GrahamIGS ID 126727Plugged & abandonedOther type—
WolkeIGS ID 126728Plugged & abandonedOther type—
BrattonIGS ID 126729Plugged & abandonedOther type—
Ramon L. VansickleIGS ID 126730Plugged & abandonedOther type—
RouthIGS ID 126731Plugged & abandonedOther type—
CaldwellIGS ID 126732Plugged & abandonedOther type—
EmmertIGS ID 126733Plugged & abandonedOther type—
JonesIGS ID 126734Plugged & abandonedOther type—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 96 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 Boone County, IN?

Boone County, Indiana has 96 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 96 plugged and 0 documented orphans.

How many orphaned wells are in Boone County?

No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Boone County, Indiana.

What share of wells in Boone County are plugged?

96 of Boone County's 96 catalogued wells (100%) 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); Boone County ranks 59th with 96.

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 Boone County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/boone (data as of October 10, 2026).