Oil & gas wells in Dearborn County, IN
47 catalogued wells in Dearborn County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Dearborn County, Indiana has 47 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 47 plugged & abandoned (100%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 73rd of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
47
Active
0
Plugged
47
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Dearborn County?
0% of Dearborn 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 Dearborn County; Indiana as a whole has 946.
What kinds of wells are in Dearborn 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%. 98% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Dearborn County compare with other Indiana counties?
Dearborn County has the 73rd-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 Dearborn 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 Dearborn County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jos. W. Hayes | IGS ID 127004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cook | IGS ID 127005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Greendale Land Co. | IGS ID 127006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cook | IGS ID 127007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fairgrounds | IGS ID 127008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lawrenceburg Gas Supply Co. | IGS ID 127009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Leo Weeks | IGS ID 127010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| City of Lawrenceburg | IGS ID 127011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lawrenceburg Flood Control District Board | IGS ID 127012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Henry Bobrink | IGS ID 127013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Henry Bobrink | IGS ID 127014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hunefeld | IGS ID 127015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Louis Schusterman | IGS ID 127016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Methodist Church | IGS ID 127017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Foundry | IGS ID 127018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Aurora Blue Lick Well | IGS ID 127019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bruce | IGS ID 127021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ashby | IGS ID 127022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Johnson | IGS ID 127023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Laaker | IGS ID 127035 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Dillsboro Sanitarium | IGS ID 127036 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Dillsboro Sanitarium | IGS ID 127037 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Dillsboro Sanitarium | IGS ID 127038 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Clark | IGS ID 127062 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Albert & Irene Fox | IGS ID 127063 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 47 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 Dearborn County, IN?
Dearborn County, Indiana has 47 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 47 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Dearborn County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Dearborn County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Dearborn County are plugged?
47 of Dearborn County's 47 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); Dearborn County ranks 73rd with 47.
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 Dearborn County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/dearborn (data as of October 10, 2026).