Oil & gas wells in Putnam County, IN
55 catalogued wells in Putnam County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Putnam County, Indiana has 55 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 54 plugged & abandoned (98%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 70th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
55
Active
0
Plugged
54
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Putnam County?
0% of Putnam County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 98% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (2%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Putnam County; Indiana as a whole has 946.
What kinds of wells are in Putnam 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 Putnam County compare with other Indiana counties?
Putnam County has the 70th-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 Putnam 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 Putnam County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cook | IGS ID 126408 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ohio & Indiana Stone Co. | IGS ID 126409 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Modesitt | IGS ID 126410 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cooper | IGS ID 126411 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Johnson | IGS ID 126412 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Tibbs | IGS ID 126413 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Elisha A. & Della O. Zeiner | IGS ID 126414 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Burger | IGS ID 126415 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Pennsylvania Railroad Co. | IGS ID 126416 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 126417 | IGS ID 126417 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Nichols | IGS ID 126487 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bridges | IGS ID 126489 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Willam D. James | IGS ID 126490 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kocher | IGS ID 126491 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Gardner Ice Co. | IGS ID 126492 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| IBM Corp. | IGS ID 126493 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Allison | IGS ID 126494 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Tucker | IGS ID 126495 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Adams | IGS ID 126496 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Adams | IGS ID 126497 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Adams | IGS ID 126498 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Steirwalt | IGS ID 126499 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Steirwalt | IGS ID 126501 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Steirwalt | IGS ID 126502 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Steirwalt | IGS ID 126503 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 55 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 Putnam County, IN?
Putnam County, Indiana has 55 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 54 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Putnam County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Putnam County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Putnam County are plugged?
54 of Putnam County's 55 catalogued wells (98%) 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); Putnam County ranks 70th with 55.
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 Putnam County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/putnam (data as of October 10, 2026).