Oil & gas wells in Dekalb County, IN
59 catalogued wells in Dekalb County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Dekalb County, Indiana has 59 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 52 plugged & abandoned (88%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 69th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
59
Active
0
Plugged
52
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Dekalb County?
0% of Dekalb County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 88% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Dekalb County; Indiana as a whole has 946. The remaining 7 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Dekalb 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 Dekalb County compare with other Indiana counties?
Dekalb County has the 69th-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 Dekalb 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 Dekalb County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McBride | IGS ID 135457 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Chistlieb | IGS ID 135458 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Colbler | IGS ID 135459 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Koch | IGS ID 135460 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Smith | IGS ID 135461 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Smith | IGS ID 135462 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Busche | IGS ID 135463 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Busche | IGS ID 135464 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Sliger | IGS ID 135465 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| City of Garrett | IGS ID 135466 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| City of Waterloo | IGS ID 135467 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Weicht | IGS ID 135468 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Smith | IGS ID 135469 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Smith | IGS ID 135470 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stroh | IGS ID 135471 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Dilgard | IGS ID 135472 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Dilard & Swantusch | IGS ID 135473 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Dilgard-Rickett-Gass-Fribley | IGS ID 135474 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fribley | IGS ID 135475 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fox | IGS ID 135476 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fribley | IGS ID 135477 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Shull | IGS ID 135478 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Wallace | IGS ID 135479 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Smith | IGS ID 135480 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Swartz | IGS ID 135481 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 59 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 Dekalb County, IN?
Dekalb County, Indiana has 59 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 52 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Dekalb County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Dekalb County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Dekalb County are plugged?
52 of Dekalb County's 59 catalogued wells (88%) 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); Dekalb County ranks 69th with 59.
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 Dekalb County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/dekalb (data as of October 10, 2026).