Oil & gas wells in Scott County, IN
34 catalogued wells in Scott County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Scott County, Indiana has 34 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 34 plugged & abandoned (100%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 78th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.0% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
34
Active
0
Plugged
34
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Scott County?
0% of Scott 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 Scott County; Indiana as a whole has 946.
What kinds of wells are in Scott 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 Scott County compare with other Indiana counties?
Scott County has the 78th-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 Scott 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 Scott County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grubbs | IGS ID 126909 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Grubbs | IGS ID 126910 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Station L9E | IGS ID 126911 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| State Highway Park | IGS ID 126912 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Station L11E | IGS ID 126913 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ernest Brunner | IGS ID 126938 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Woodruff | IGS ID 126939 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Morgan Trail Park | IGS ID 126940 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Scott County Stone Co. | IGS ID 126941 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Montgomery | IGS ID 126968 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stewart | IGS ID 126969 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stewart | IGS ID 126970 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Riley, McKinley & Myrtle | IGS ID 126973 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Blooe | IGS ID 126974 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| American Can Co. | IGS ID 126975 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Jones | IGS ID 126977 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Seavers | IGS ID 126978 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Vaughn | IGS ID 126979 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Wetzel | IGS ID 126980 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hamilton & Wiesman | IGS ID 126981 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hamilton | IGS ID 126982 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Wetzel, Ray & Wetzel Car | IGS ID 126983 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Charlton | IGS ID 126984 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lytle | IGS ID 126985 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Needler | IGS ID 126986 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 34 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 Scott County, IN?
Scott County, Indiana has 34 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 34 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Scott County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Scott County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Scott County are plugged?
34 of Scott County's 34 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); Scott County ranks 78th with 34.
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 Scott County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/scott (data as of October 10, 2026).