Oil & gas wells in Tipton County, IN
471 catalogued wells in Tipton County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Tipton County, Indiana has 471 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 454 plugged & abandoned (96%) and 17 documented orphans. It ranks 34th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.6% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
471
Active
0
Plugged
454
Documented orphans
17
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Tipton County?
0% of Tipton County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 96% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. 17 wells (4%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Indiana and 4% nationally.
What kinds of wells are in Tipton 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 Tipton County compare with other Indiana counties?
Tipton County has the 34th-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. By documented orphans it ranks 17th in Indiana.
Who operates wells in Tipton 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 Tipton County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams | IGS ID 146934 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Trader | IGS ID 146935 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kemp | IGS ID 146936 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kirkpatrick | IGS ID 146937 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Jones | IGS ID 146938 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Goodnight | IGS ID 146939 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kemp | IGS ID 146940 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Goodnight | IGS ID 146941 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Jones | IGS ID 146942 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Jones | IGS ID 146943 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Jones | IGS ID 146944 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Adams | IGS ID 146945 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Adams | IGS ID 146946 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Adams | IGS ID 146947 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Goodnight | IGS ID 146948 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Goodnight | IGS ID 146949 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hinkle | IGS ID 146950 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hinkle | IGS ID 146951 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Smith | IGS ID 146952 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Smith | IGS ID 146953 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Smith | IGS ID 146954 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bunch | IGS ID 146955 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bunch | IGS ID 146956 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Goldsmith | IGS ID 146957 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bunch | IGS ID 146958 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 471 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 Tipton County, IN?
Tipton County, Indiana has 471 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 454 plugged and 17 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Tipton County?
17 wells in Tipton County, Indiana are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 17th-highest count among Indiana counties.
What share of wells in Tipton County are plugged?
454 of Tipton County's 471 catalogued wells (96%) 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); Tipton County ranks 34th with 471.
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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 Tipton County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/tipton (data as of October 10, 2026).