Oil & gas wells in Lake County, IN
100 catalogued wells in Lake County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Lake County, Indiana has 100 catalogued oil & gas wells: 19 active (19%), 80 plugged & abandoned (80%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 57th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
100
Active
19
Plugged
80
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Lake County?
19% of Lake County's wells are active, 8 percentage points above the Indiana share of 11%. 80% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (1%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Lake County; Indiana as a whole has 946.
What kinds of wells are in Lake 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 Lake County compare with other Indiana counties?
Lake County has the 57th-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 Lake 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 Lake County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fifield | IGS ID 142047 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Jurs | IGS ID 142048 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Monon Railroad | IGS ID 142049 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brown | IGS ID 142050 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brown | IGS ID 142051 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brown | IGS ID 142052 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brown & Sons Inc. | IGS ID 142053 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Mathis | IGS ID 142054 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Mathis | IGS ID 142055 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Mathis | IGS ID 142056 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Mathis | IGS ID 142057 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Wunderink | IGS ID 142058 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Wunderink | IGS ID 142059 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Compton | IGS ID 142060 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Wesley Haden | IGS ID 142061 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carsten | IGS ID 142062 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Workingman | IGS ID 142063 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huber Ranch | IGS ID 142064 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Little | IGS ID 142065 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Williams | IGS ID 142066 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Driscoll | IGS ID 142067 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. | IGS ID 142068 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Corbin-Arnold | IGS ID 142071 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hough | IGS ID 142072 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| City of Crown Point | IGS ID 142073 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 100 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 Lake County, IN?
Lake County, Indiana has 100 catalogued oil & gas wells: 19 active, 80 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Lake County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Lake County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Lake County are plugged?
80 of Lake County's 100 catalogued wells (80%) 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); Lake County ranks 57th with 100.
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 Lake County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/lake (data as of October 10, 2026).