Oil & gas wells in Hamilton County, IN
850 catalogued wells in Hamilton County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Hamilton County, Indiana has 850 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 841 plugged & abandoned (99%) and 8 documented orphans. It ranks 22nd of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
850
Active
0
Plugged
841
Documented orphans
8
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Hamilton County?
0% of Hamilton County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 99% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. 8 wells (0.9%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Indiana and 4% nationally. The remaining 1 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Hamilton 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 Hamilton County compare with other Indiana counties?
Hamilton County has the 22nd-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 21st in Indiana.
Who operates wells in Hamilton 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 Hamilton County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teegarden | IGS ID 138455 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Eller | IGS ID 138456 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Eller | IGS ID 138457 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Overby | IGS ID 138458 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Wise | IGS ID 138459 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Middleton | IGS ID 138461 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| George | IGS ID 138462 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Williamson | IGS ID 138463 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Harris | IGS ID 138464 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brandom | IGS ID 138465 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fausett | IGS ID 138466 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fausett | IGS ID 138467 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kincaide | IGS ID 138468 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kincaide | IGS ID 138469 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kincaide | IGS ID 138470 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kinnaman | IGS ID 138471 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kinnaman | IGS ID 138472 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kinnaman | IGS ID 138473 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kinnaman | IGS ID 138474 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Shorewood | IGS ID 138475 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brooks | IGS ID 138476 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Driscoll | IGS ID 138477 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Irving Materials Inc. | IGS ID 138478 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kincaide | IGS ID 138479 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kincaide | IGS ID 138480 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 850 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 Hamilton County, IN?
Hamilton County, Indiana has 850 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 841 plugged and 8 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Hamilton County?
8 wells in Hamilton County, Indiana are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 21st-highest count among Indiana counties.
What share of wells in Hamilton County are plugged?
841 of Hamilton County's 850 catalogued wells (99%) 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); Hamilton County ranks 22nd with 850.
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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 Hamilton County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/hamilton (data as of October 10, 2026).