Oil & gas wells in Wayne County, IN
48 catalogued wells in Wayne County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Wayne County, Indiana has 48 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1 active (2%), 47 plugged & abandoned (98%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 72nd of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
48
Active
1
Plugged
47
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Wayne County?
2% of Wayne County's wells are active, 8 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 98% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Wayne County; Indiana as a whole has 946.
What kinds of wells are in Wayne 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 Wayne County compare with other Indiana counties?
Wayne County has the 72nd-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 Wayne 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 Wayne County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paul McCraw | IGS ID 147769 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Taylor | IGS ID 147770 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Magaw | IGS ID 147771 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Williams | IGS ID 147772 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cook | IGS ID 147773 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 147774 | IGS ID 147774 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 147775 | IGS ID 147775 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 147776 | IGS ID 147776 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 147777 | IGS ID 147777 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 147778 | IGS ID 147778 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brown | IGS ID 147779 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Doddridge | IGS ID 147780 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Doddridge | IGS ID 147781 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 147782 | IGS ID 147782 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 147783 | IGS ID 147783 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Briar | IGS ID 147784 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Dublin Foundry | IGS ID 147785 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Thornburg | IGS ID 147786 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 147787 | IGS ID 147787 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 147788 | IGS ID 147788 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bucyrus-Erie Co. | IGS ID 147789 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Pierce | IGS ID 147790 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 147791 | IGS ID 147791 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Knode | IGS ID 147792 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Knode | IGS ID 147793 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 48 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 Wayne County, IN?
Wayne County, Indiana has 48 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1 active, 47 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Wayne County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Wayne County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Wayne County are plugged?
47 of Wayne County's 48 catalogued wells (98%) 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); Wayne County ranks 72nd with 48.
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 Wayne County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/wayne (data as of October 10, 2026).