Oil & gas wells in Owen County, IN
192 catalogued wells in Owen County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Owen County, Indiana has 192 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 190 plugged & abandoned (99%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 44th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.2% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
192
Active
0
Plugged
190
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Owen County?
0% of Owen County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 99% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Owen County; Indiana as a whole has 946. The remaining 2 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Owen 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 Owen County compare with other Indiana counties?
Owen County has the 44th-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 Owen 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 Owen County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beem | IGS ID 125258 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fletcher | IGS ID 125259 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Tanner | IGS ID 125260 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Becker | IGS ID 125261 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Miller | IGS ID 125262 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ray T. Black | IGS ID 125263 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stanley | IGS ID 125264 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| County Road Right-of-Way | IGS ID 125265 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fiscus | IGS ID 125266 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Patricksburg High School | IGS ID 125267 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Aaron Jines | IGS ID 125268 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Chambers | IGS ID 125269 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| McDaniel | IGS ID 125270 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Barmunk | IGS ID 125271 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Andrew | IGS ID 125272 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fry Estate | IGS ID 125273 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fry Estate | IGS ID 125274 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Rawley | IGS ID 125275 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Rowland | IGS ID 125278 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Schopmeyer | IGS ID 125279 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Roberts | IGS ID 125292 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Rice | IGS ID 125293 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Evans | IGS ID 125294 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ritter | IGS ID 125295 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kelly | IGS ID 125296 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 192 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 Owen County, IN?
Owen County, Indiana has 192 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 190 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Owen County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Owen County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Owen County are plugged?
190 of Owen County's 192 catalogued wells (99%) 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); Owen County ranks 44th with 192.
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 Owen County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/owen (data as of October 10, 2026).