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Oil & gas wells in St. Joseph County, IN

44 catalogued wells in St. Joseph County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

St. Joseph County, Indiana has 44 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 44 plugged & abandoned (100%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 75th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.

Catalogued wells

44

Active

0

Plugged

44

Documented orphans

0

What is the status of oil and gas wells in St. Joseph County?

0% of St. Joseph 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 St. Joseph County; Indiana as a whole has 946.

What kinds of wells are in St. Joseph 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 St. Joseph County compare with other Indiana counties?

St. Joseph County has the 75th-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 St. Joseph 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.

Oil & gas wells in St. Joseph County, IN
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
McEndarferIGS ID 146223Plugged & abandonedOther type—
JohansenIGS ID 146224Plugged & abandonedOther type—
BierlyIGS ID 146225Plugged & abandonedOther type—
BaughmanIGS ID 146226Plugged & abandonedOther type—
MikelIGS ID 146227Plugged & abandonedOther type—
MillerIGS ID 146228Plugged & abandonedOther type—
KopanskiIGS ID 146229Plugged & abandonedOther type—
MillerIGS ID 146230Plugged & abandonedOther type—
FeeceIGS ID 146231Plugged & abandonedOther type—
PearseIGS ID 146232Plugged & abandonedOther type—
PearseIGS ID 146233Plugged & abandonedOther type—
SnyderIGS ID 146234Plugged & abandonedOther type—
WiltfongIGS ID 146235Plugged & abandonedOther type—
HayIGS ID 146236Plugged & abandonedOther type—
NelsonIGS ID 146237Plugged & abandonedOther type—
AndertIGS ID 146238Plugged & abandonedOther type—
GilmanIGS ID 146239Plugged & abandonedOther type—
ZeigerIGS ID 146240Plugged & abandonedOther type—
SchraderIGS ID 146241Plugged & abandonedOther type—
WeaverIGS ID 146242Plugged & abandonedOther type—
HoreinIGS ID 146243Plugged & abandonedOther type—
HunsbergerIGS ID 146244Plugged & abandonedOther type—
KushIGS ID 146245Plugged & abandonedOther type—
DayIGS ID 146246Plugged & abandonedOther type—
HaagIGS ID 146247Plugged & abandonedOther type—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 44 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 St. Joseph County, IN?

St. Joseph County, Indiana has 44 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 44 plugged and 0 documented orphans.

How many orphaned wells are in St. Joseph County?

No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in St. Joseph County, Indiana.

What share of wells in St. Joseph County are plugged?

44 of St. Joseph County's 44 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); St. Joseph County ranks 75th with 44.

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 St. Joseph County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/st-joseph (data as of October 10, 2026).