Oil & gas wells in Jennings County, IN
80 catalogued wells in Jennings County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Jennings County, Indiana has 80 catalogued oil & gas wells: 21 active (26%), 54 plugged & abandoned (68%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 64th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
80
Active
21
Plugged
54
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Jennings County?
26% of Jennings County's wells are active, 16 percentage points above the Indiana share of 11%. 68% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. 3 wells (4%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 1 wells (1%) 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 Jennings 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 Jennings County compare with other Indiana counties?
Jennings County has the 64th-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 38th in Indiana.
Who operates wells in Jennings 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 Jennings County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blair | IGS ID 126976 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Mull | IGS ID 127048 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Johnson | IGS ID 127049 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Thomas | IGS ID 127050 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Vance | IGS ID 127051 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| J. Artz | IGS ID 127052 | Active | Other type | — |
| John Ross | IGS ID 127053 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Smart | IGS ID 127054 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Corya | IGS ID 127055 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cox | IGS ID 127056 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fable | IGS ID 127097 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Newby | IGS ID 127098 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Richart | IGS ID 127099 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Rickhart | IGS ID 127100 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Rickhart | IGS ID 127101 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kent | IGS ID 127102 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Gerringer | IGS ID 127103 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Millikin | IGS ID 127104 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Mullikin | IGS ID 127105 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Maschino | IGS ID 127106 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Leavitt | IGS ID 127107 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 127108 | IGS ID 127108 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Baldwin | IGS ID 127109 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Town Of Vernon | IGS ID 127110 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Town of Vernon | IGS ID 127111 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 80 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 Jennings County, IN?
Jennings County, Indiana has 80 catalogued oil & gas wells: 21 active, 54 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Jennings County?
1 wells in Jennings County, Indiana are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 38th-highest count among Indiana counties.
What share of wells in Jennings County are plugged?
54 of Jennings County's 80 catalogued wells (68%) 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); Jennings County ranks 64th with 80.
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 Jennings County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/jennings (data as of October 10, 2026).