Oil & gas wells in Vermillion County, IN
129 catalogued wells in Vermillion County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Vermillion County, Indiana has 129 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 128 plugged & abandoned (99%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 50th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.2% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
129
Active
0
Plugged
128
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Vermillion County?
0% of Vermillion County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 99% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Vermillion County; Indiana as a whole has 946. The remaining 1 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Vermillion 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%. 99% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Vermillion County compare with other Indiana counties?
Vermillion County has the 50th-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 Vermillion 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 Vermillion County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lawson | IGS ID 124878 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Schreech, Maesch, Dickenson, & Thomas | IGS ID 124879 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Buntain | IGS ID 124880 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Foltz | IGS ID 124881 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Baker | IGS ID 124979 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Claude Matthews | IGS ID 124981 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cheek | IGS ID 124982 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cheek | IGS ID 124983 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cheek | IGS ID 124984 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cheek, Herschel | IGS ID 124985 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Gerrish | IGS ID 124986 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Satterlee | IGS ID 124987 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Newton | IGS ID 124988 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stratton | IGS ID 124989 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stratton | IGS ID 124990 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Walker | IGS ID 124991 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Farrington | IGS ID 125051 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ponton | IGS ID 125052 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ponton | IGS ID 125053 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ponton | IGS ID 125054 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ponton | IGS ID 125055 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brooks | IGS ID 125056 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Arn (W.F. Farrington) | IGS ID 125057 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Barltett | IGS ID 125058 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haun | IGS ID 125059 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 129 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 Vermillion County, IN?
Vermillion County, Indiana has 129 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 128 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Vermillion County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Vermillion County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Vermillion County are plugged?
128 of Vermillion County's 129 catalogued wells (99%) 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); Vermillion County ranks 50th with 129.
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 Vermillion County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/vermillion (data as of October 10, 2026).