Oil & gas wells in Wabash County, IN
409 catalogued wells in Wabash County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Wabash County, Indiana has 409 catalogued oil & gas wells: 27 active (7%), 370 plugged & abandoned (90%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 35th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.5% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
409
Active
27
Plugged
370
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Wabash County?
7% of Wabash County's wells are active, 4 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 90% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (0.2%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 1 wells (0.2%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Indiana and 4% nationally. The remaining 10 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Wabash 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 Wabash County compare with other Indiana counties?
Wabash County has the 35th-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 36th in Indiana.
Who operates wells in Wabash 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 Wabash County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan W. Hiatt | IGS ID 129 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Whitesel | IGS ID 147402 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hamblin | IGS ID 147403 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hawkins | IGS ID 147404 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Anderson | IGS ID 147405 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bowman | IGS ID 147406 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Eckelbarger | IGS ID 147407 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 147409 | IGS ID 147409 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Tucker | IGS ID 147410 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Weesner | IGS ID 147411 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Weesner | IGS ID 147412 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Schrantz | IGS ID 147413 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 147414 | IGS ID 147414 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stouffer | IGS ID 147415 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Mikesell | IGS ID 147416 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Nathan W. Hiatt | IGS ID 147417 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ellis S. Brubaker | IGS ID 147418 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Samuel & Martha Fleming | IGS ID 147419 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ogan | IGS ID 147420 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Garst | IGS ID 147421 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| J.C. Draper | IGS ID 147422 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Clark Mallot | IGS ID 147423 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Farley | IGS ID 147424 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| White | IGS ID 147425 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Neff | IGS ID 147426 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 409 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 Wabash County, IN?
Wabash County, Indiana has 409 catalogued oil & gas wells: 27 active, 370 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Wabash County?
1 wells in Wabash County, Indiana are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 36th-highest count among Indiana counties.
What share of wells in Wabash County are plugged?
370 of Wabash County's 409 catalogued wells (90%) 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); Wabash County ranks 35th with 409.
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 Wabash County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/wabash (data as of October 10, 2026).