Oil & gas wells in Daviess County, IN
2,481 catalogued wells in Daviess County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Daviess County, Indiana has 2,481 catalogued oil & gas wells: 323 active (13%), 1,899 plugged & abandoned (77%) and 2 documented orphans. It ranks 9th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 3% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
2,481
Active
323
Plugged
1,899
Documented orphans
2
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Daviess County?
13% of Daviess County's wells are active, 2 percentage points above the Indiana share of 11%. 77% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. 5 wells (0.2%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 2 wells (0.1%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Indiana and 4% nationally. The remaining 252 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Daviess 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%. 99% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Daviess County compare with other Indiana counties?
Daviess County has the 9th-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 25th in Indiana.
Who operates wells in Daviess 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 Daviess County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Well IGS ID 100001 | IGS ID 100001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| John Allen | IGS ID 100002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Freyberger, Milford | IGS ID 100003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Allen, Ralph | IGS ID 100004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Harbinson, Ada M. | IGS ID 100005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Vogel, Alton | IGS ID 100006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ralph A. McCord | IGS ID 100007 | Active | Other type | — |
| Harder, Lois | IGS ID 100008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Herman Edwards | IGS ID 100009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Edwards, Herman | IGS ID 100010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Edwards, William H. | IGS ID 100011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brown, Arthur | IGS ID 100012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brown, David A. | IGS ID 100014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| D. A. Brown | IGS ID 100015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brown, Jewell L. | IGS ID 100016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brown, Roy | IGS ID 100017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lester Furhman | IGS ID 100018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Harris, Lois | IGS ID 100019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Burris | IGS ID 100020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Burris | IGS ID 100021 | Shut-in | Other type | — |
| Edgar and Clara Harder | IGS ID 100022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Harris, Zada | IGS ID 100023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Harder, Clara M. | IGS ID 100024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brittain | IGS ID 100025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brown & Harris | IGS ID 100026 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 2,481 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 Daviess County, IN?
Daviess County, Indiana has 2,481 catalogued oil & gas wells: 323 active, 1,899 plugged and 2 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Daviess County?
2 wells in Daviess County, Indiana are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 25th-highest count among Indiana counties.
What share of wells in Daviess County are plugged?
1,899 of Daviess County's 2,481 catalogued wells (77%) 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); Daviess County ranks 9th with 2,481.
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 Daviess County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/daviess (data as of October 10, 2026).