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Oil & gas wells in Noble County, IN

45 catalogued wells in Noble County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Noble County, Indiana has 45 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 45 plugged & abandoned (100%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 74th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.

Catalogued wells

45

Active

0

Plugged

45

Documented orphans

0

What is the status of oil and gas wells in Noble County?

0% of Noble County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 100% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Noble County; Indiana as a whole has 946.

What kinds of wells are in Noble 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 Noble County compare with other Indiana counties?

Noble County has the 74th-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 Noble 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.

Oil & gas wells in Noble County, IN
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
LongIGS ID 144358Plugged & abandonedOther type—
EarnhartIGS ID 144359Plugged & abandonedOther type—
HiattIGS ID 144360Plugged & abandonedOther type—
OttIGS ID 144361Plugged & abandonedOther type—
ClouseIGS ID 144362Plugged & abandonedOther type—
PippengerIGS ID 144363Plugged & abandonedOther type—
AckersIGS ID 144364Plugged & abandonedOther type—
BairIGS ID 144365Plugged & abandonedOther type—
WeaverIGS ID 144366Plugged & abandonedOther type—
BilgerIGS ID 144367Plugged & abandonedOther type—
RhodesIGS ID 144368Plugged & abandonedOther type—
SmithIGS ID 144369Plugged & abandonedOther type—
GallawayIGS ID 144370Plugged & abandonedOther type—
LeathersIGS ID 144371Plugged & abandonedOther type—
LeathersIGS ID 144372Plugged & abandonedOther type—
SmithIGS ID 144373Plugged & abandonedOther type—
BlackIGS ID 144374Plugged & abandonedOther type—
YeiserIGS ID 144375Plugged & abandonedOther type—
Well IGS ID 144376IGS ID 144376Plugged & abandonedOther type—
Kendallville WellIGS ID 144377Plugged & abandonedOther type—
ScheurichIGS ID 144378Plugged & abandonedOther type—
MillerIGS ID 144379Plugged & abandonedOther type—
WolfIGS ID 144380Plugged & abandonedOther type—
SimmonsIGS ID 144381Plugged & abandonedOther type—
MoodyIGS ID 144382Plugged & abandonedOther type—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 45 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 Noble County, IN?

Noble County, Indiana has 45 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 45 plugged and 0 documented orphans.

How many orphaned wells are in Noble County?

No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Noble County, Indiana.

What share of wells in Noble County are plugged?

45 of Noble County's 45 catalogued wells (100%) 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); Noble County ranks 74th with 45.

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 Noble County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/noble (data as of October 10, 2026).