Oil & gas wells in Perry County, IN
880 catalogued wells in Perry County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Perry County, Indiana has 880 catalogued oil & gas wells: 46 active (5%), 822 plugged & abandoned (93%) and 2 documented orphans. It ranks 21st of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
880
Active
46
Plugged
822
Documented orphans
2
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Perry County?
5% of Perry County's wells are active, 5 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 93% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (0.1%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 2 wells (0.2%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Indiana and 4% nationally. The remaining 9 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Perry 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 Perry County compare with other Indiana counties?
Perry County has the 21st-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 26th in Indiana.
Who operates wells in Perry 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 Perry County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victor Zehr | IGS ID 125667 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Wright | IGS ID 125668 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Sherman & Ollie Sigler | IGS ID 125669 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Dennis Underhill | IGS ID 125670 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Leo Fulkner | IGS ID 125671 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Anthony & Olivia Leisner | IGS ID 125672 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Casey | IGS ID 125673 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Farley | IGS ID 125674 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Flanagan | IGS ID 125675 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kelly | IGS ID 125676 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kelly | IGS ID 125677 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kelly | IGS ID 125678 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| James D. Kelly | IGS ID 125679 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kelly | IGS ID 125680 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Paul Kelly | IGS ID 125681 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Paul Kelly | IGS ID 125682 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kelly | IGS ID 125683 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Newton | IGS ID 125684 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kelly | IGS ID 125686 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Miles | IGS ID 125687 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Braunecker | IGS ID 125688 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Underhill | IGS ID 125689 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Sullivan | IGS ID 125690 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Jesse Sullivan | IGS ID 125691 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Perrot | IGS ID 125692 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 880 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 Perry County, IN?
Perry County, Indiana has 880 catalogued oil & gas wells: 46 active, 822 plugged and 2 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Perry County?
2 wells in Perry County, Indiana are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 26th-highest count among Indiana counties.
What share of wells in Perry County are plugged?
822 of Perry County's 880 catalogued wells (93%) 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); Perry County ranks 21st with 880.
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 Perry County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/perry (data as of October 10, 2026).