Oil & gas wells in Washington County, IN
82 catalogued wells in Washington County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Washington County, Indiana has 82 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 79 plugged & abandoned (96%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 63rd of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
82
Active
0
Plugged
79
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Washington County?
0% of Washington County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 96% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (1%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Washington 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 Washington 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 Washington County compare with other Indiana counties?
Washington County has the 63rd-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 Washington 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 Washington County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russell | IGS ID 164941 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Leonard | IGS ID 126857 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ponsford | IGS ID 126861 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Shrum | IGS ID 126898 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Knight | IGS ID 126901 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Zink | IGS ID 126902 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hunter | IGS ID 126867 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Station L7E | IGS ID 126908 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cauble | IGS ID 126860 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Chastain | IGS ID 126876 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Reyman | IGS ID 126894 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Graves | IGS ID 126905 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Rosenbaum | IGS ID 126926 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lenora Wuest | IGS ID 157496 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stobbe | IGS ID 126862 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Loren Wetzel | IGS ID 157494 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| C Rosenbaum | IGS ID 160005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Rosenbaum | IGS ID 126928 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Victor Greene | IGS ID 126932 | Shut-in | Other type | — |
| Owsley | IGS ID 152614 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stephenson | IGS ID 126904 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hendrick & Targonski | IGS ID 126869 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stepp | IGS ID 126878 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Rosenbaum | IGS ID 126924 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Rosenbaum | IGS ID 126925 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 82 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 Washington County, IN?
Washington County, Indiana has 82 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 79 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Washington County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Washington County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Washington County are plugged?
79 of Washington County's 82 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); Washington County ranks 63rd with 82.
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 Washington County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/washington (data as of October 10, 2026).