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Oil & gas wells in Tippecanoe County, IN

102 catalogued wells in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Tippecanoe County, Indiana has 102 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 102 plugged & abandoned (100%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 55th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.

Catalogued wells

102

Active

0

Plugged

102

Documented orphans

0

What is the status of oil and gas wells in Tippecanoe County?

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

What kinds of wells are in Tippecanoe 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 Tippecanoe County compare with other Indiana counties?

Tippecanoe County has the 55th-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 Tippecanoe 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 Tippecanoe County, IN
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
Purdue UniversityIGS ID 158882Plugged & abandonedOther type—
SummersIGS ID 158883Plugged & abandonedOther type—
SummersIGS ID 158884Plugged & abandonedOther type—
StuartIGS ID 158885Plugged & abandonedOther type—
SiersemaIGS ID 158886Plugged & abandonedOther type—
AndrewsIGS ID 158887Plugged & abandonedOther type—
J.C. AndrewIGS ID 158888Plugged & abandonedOther type—
WhiteheadIGS ID 158889Plugged & abandonedOther type—
WhiteheadIGS ID 158890Plugged & abandonedOther type—
WhiteheadIGS ID 158891Plugged & abandonedOther type—
AndrewsIGS ID 158892Plugged & abandonedOther type—
AndrewsIGS ID 158893Plugged & abandonedOther type—
AndrewIGS ID 158894Plugged & abandonedOther type—
Orville CraigIGS ID 158895Plugged & abandonedOther type—
LutzIGS ID 158896Plugged & abandonedOther type—
LutzIGS ID 158897Plugged & abandonedOther type—
LutzIGS ID 158898Plugged & abandonedOther type—
AchesonIGS ID 158899Plugged & abandonedOther type—
AchesonIGS ID 158900Plugged & abandonedOther type—
AchesonIGS ID 158901Plugged & abandonedOther type—
J.C. AndrewIGS ID 158902Plugged & abandonedOther type—
PrienIGS ID 158903Plugged & abandonedOther type—
ValareIGS ID 158904Plugged & abandonedOther type—
ValareIGS ID 158905Plugged & abandonedOther type—
Pete & Leota ValareIGS ID 158906Plugged & abandonedOther type—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 102 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 Tippecanoe County, IN?

Tippecanoe County, Indiana has 102 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 102 plugged and 0 documented orphans.

How many orphaned wells are in Tippecanoe County?

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

What share of wells in Tippecanoe County are plugged?

102 of Tippecanoe County's 102 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); Tippecanoe County ranks 55th with 102.

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 Tippecanoe County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/tippecanoe (data as of October 10, 2026).