Oil & gas wells in Steuben County, IN
89 catalogued wells in Steuben County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Steuben County, Indiana has 89 catalogued oil & gas wells: 9 active (10%), 78 plugged & abandoned (88%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 60th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
89
Active
9
Plugged
78
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Steuben County?
10% of Steuben County's wells are active, close to the Indiana share of 11%. 88% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Steuben 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 Steuben 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 Steuben County compare with other Indiana counties?
Steuben County has the 60th-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 Steuben 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 Steuben County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B. Degraw | IGS ID 146883 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| John W McLaughlin | IGS ID 146884 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Weicht | IGS ID 146885 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Robert Anderson | IGS ID 146886 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Elwood Parr | IGS ID 146887 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Walter C. & Gardus Hanna | IGS ID 146888 | Active | Other type | — |
| G. Boyer | IGS ID 146889 | Active | Other type | — |
| Noll | IGS ID 146890 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Parr | IGS ID 146891 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Shirley Parr | IGS ID 146892 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Dan Wise II | IGS ID 146893 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Larry McCombs | IGS ID 146894 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Doyle Schmidt | IGS ID 146895 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Clifford Ganzer | IGS ID 146896 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Arden Tubbs | IGS ID 146897 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fay Tubbs | IGS ID 146898 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ernest Young | IGS ID 146899 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Elmer Perkins | IGS ID 146900 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Clingan | IGS ID 146901 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Perry Clingan | IGS ID 146902 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cloyd Schmidt et ux | IGS ID 146903 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Walker | IGS ID 146904 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Finley | IGS ID 146905 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 146906 | IGS ID 146906 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Robertson-Perfect | IGS ID 146907 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 89 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 Steuben County, IN?
Steuben County, Indiana has 89 catalogued oil & gas wells: 9 active, 78 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Steuben County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Steuben County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Steuben County are plugged?
78 of Steuben County's 89 catalogued wells (88%) 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); Steuben County ranks 60th with 89.
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 Steuben County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/steuben (data as of October 10, 2026).