Oil & gas wells in Wells County, IN
4,362 catalogued wells in Wells County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Wells County, Indiana has 4,362 catalogued oil & gas wells: 10 active (0.2%), 4,348 plugged & abandoned (100%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 6th of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 6% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
4,362
Active
10
Plugged
4,348
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Wells County?
0.2% of Wells County's wells are active, 10 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 100% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (0.0%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 1% across Indiana and 4% nationally. The remaining 3 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Wells 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 Wells County compare with other Indiana counties?
Wells County has the 6th-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 30th in Indiana.
Who operates wells in Wells 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 Wells County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foust | IGS ID 147816 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147817 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147818 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147819 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147820 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147821 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147822 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147823 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147824 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147825 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147826 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147827 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147828 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147829 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147830 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147831 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147832 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147833 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147834 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147835 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147836 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147837 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147838 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147839 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Huffman | IGS ID 147840 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 4,362 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 Wells County, IN?
Wells County, Indiana has 4,362 catalogued oil & gas wells: 10 active, 4,348 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Wells County?
1 wells in Wells County, Indiana are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 30th-highest count among Indiana counties.
What share of wells in Wells County are plugged?
4,348 of Wells County's 4,362 catalogued wells (100%) 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); Wells County ranks 6th with 4,362.
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 Wells County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/wells (data as of October 10, 2026).