Oil & gas wells in Miami County, IN
644 catalogued wells in Miami County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Miami County, Indiana has 644 catalogued oil & gas wells: 28 active (4%), 571 plugged & abandoned (89%) and 30 documented orphans. It ranks 30th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.8% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
644
Active
28
Plugged
571
Documented orphans
30
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Miami County?
4% of Miami County's wells are active, 6 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 89% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (0.2%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 30 wells (5%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Indiana and 4% nationally. The remaining 14 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Miami 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 Miami County compare with other Indiana counties?
Miami County has the 30th-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 12th in Indiana.
Who operates wells in Miami 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 Miami County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilbreth | IGS ID 143834 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Rose | IGS ID 143835 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Jenkins | IGS ID 143836 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bennett's Station | IGS ID 143837 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143838 | IGS ID 143838 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143839 | IGS ID 143839 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143840 | IGS ID 143840 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143841 | IGS ID 143841 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Amboy | IGS ID 143842 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143843 | IGS ID 143843 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143844 | IGS ID 143844 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143845 | IGS ID 143845 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143846 | IGS ID 143846 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143847 | IGS ID 143847 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143848 | IGS ID 143848 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143849 | IGS ID 143849 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143850 | IGS ID 143850 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Daniels | IGS ID 143851 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| McFarland | IGS ID 143852 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Douglas | IGS ID 143853 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143854 | IGS ID 143854 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Pearson | IGS ID 143855 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 143856 | IGS ID 143856 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haifly | IGS ID 143857 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ballard | IGS ID 143858 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 644 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 Miami County, IN?
Miami County, Indiana has 644 catalogued oil & gas wells: 28 active, 571 plugged and 30 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Miami County?
30 wells in Miami County, Indiana are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 12th-highest count among Indiana counties.
What share of wells in Miami County are plugged?
571 of Miami County's 644 catalogued wells (89%) 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); Miami County ranks 30th with 644.
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 Miami County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/miami (data as of October 10, 2026).