Oil & gas wells in Orange County, IN
145 catalogued wells in Orange County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Orange County, Indiana has 145 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 119 plugged & abandoned (82%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 48th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.2% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
145
Active
0
Plugged
119
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Orange County?
0% of Orange County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 82% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Orange County; Indiana as a whole has 946. The remaining 26 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Orange 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%. 84% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Orange County compare with other Indiana counties?
Orange County has the 48th-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 Orange 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 Orange County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barclay | IGS ID 106843 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Calcar Quarry | IGS ID 106844 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stout | IGS ID 106845 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Paoli Artesian Well | IGS ID 106846 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Paoli Artesian Well | IGS ID 106847 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ralph & Helen Seybold | IGS ID 106848 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Weeks | IGS ID 106849 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Willyard | IGS ID 106850 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Campbell | IGS ID 106851 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Marcus Chilton | IGS ID 106852 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Raymond Flick | IGS ID 106853 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Earl Reynolds | IGS ID 106854 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ralph H. Brown | IGS ID 106855 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Belcher | IGS ID 106856 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Robert E. Free | IGS ID 106866 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Free | IGS ID 106867 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Knight | IGS ID 106868 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Williams | IGS ID 106869 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Mike Blevins | IGS ID 106870 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Oscar & Mae Wigand | IGS ID 106871 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Holland | IGS ID 106872 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ash | IGS ID 106873 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Seng | IGS ID 106874 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Seng | IGS ID 106875 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Denbo | IGS ID 106876 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 145 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 Orange County, IN?
Orange County, Indiana has 145 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 119 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Orange County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Orange County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Orange County are plugged?
119 of Orange County's 145 catalogued wells (82%) 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); Orange County ranks 48th with 145.
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 Orange County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/orange (data as of October 10, 2026).