Oil & gas wells in Fountain County, IN
107 catalogued wells in Fountain County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Fountain County, Indiana has 107 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 104 plugged & abandoned (97%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 54th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
107
Active
0
Plugged
104
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Fountain County?
0% of Fountain County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 97% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Fountain County; Indiana as a whole has 946. The remaining 3 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Fountain 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 Fountain County compare with other Indiana counties?
Fountain County has the 54th-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 Fountain 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 Fountain County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| William Delbert Ratcliff | IGS ID 160769 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160770 | IGS ID 160770 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160771 | IGS ID 160771 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Troy C. Glascock | IGS ID 160772 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160773 | IGS ID 160773 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160774 | IGS ID 160774 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Jacob & Vivian Hambins | IGS ID 160775 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160776 | IGS ID 160776 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160777 | IGS ID 160777 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Perigo, Ivoe | IGS ID 160778 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Harold Stockdale | IGS ID 160779 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stockdale, Harold B. | IGS ID 160780 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160781 | IGS ID 160781 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160782 | IGS ID 160782 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Elwell, Dave | IGS ID 160783 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160784 | IGS ID 160784 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160785 | IGS ID 160785 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160786 | IGS ID 160786 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160787 | IGS ID 160787 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160788 | IGS ID 160788 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Miller, Thomas H. & Leona G. | IGS ID 160789 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160790 | IGS ID 160790 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Parish, Ralph | IGS ID 160791 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 160792 | IGS ID 160792 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hershburger | IGS ID 160793 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 107 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 Fountain County, IN?
Fountain County, Indiana has 107 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 104 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Fountain County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Fountain County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Fountain County are plugged?
104 of Fountain County's 107 catalogued wells (97%) 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); Fountain County ranks 54th with 107.
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 Fountain County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/fountain (data as of October 10, 2026).