Oil & gas wells in Whitley County, IN
27 catalogued wells in Whitley County, Indiana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Whitley County, Indiana has 27 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 27 plugged & abandoned (100%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 83rd of the 83 Indiana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.0% of the state's 78,257 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
27
Active
0
Plugged
27
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Whitley County?
0% of Whitley County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Indiana share of 11%. 100% are plugged & abandoned, against 84% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Whitley County; Indiana as a whole has 946.
What kinds of wells are in Whitley 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 Whitley County compare with other Indiana counties?
Whitley County has the 83rd-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 Whitley 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 Whitley County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bailey | IGS ID 153009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kreider | IGS ID 153010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bolinger | IGS ID 153011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Henney | IGS ID 153012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kneller | IGS ID 153013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Reams | IGS ID 153014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| McNagny | IGS ID 153015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Jarboe | IGS ID 153016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Mathias | IGS ID 153017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Gangwer | IGS ID 153018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Adkins | IGS ID 153019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Columbia City Well | IGS ID 153020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Columbia City Well | IGS ID 153021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Well IGS ID 153022 | IGS ID 153022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Veasey | IGS ID 153023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Frank | IGS ID 153024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Miller | IGS ID 153025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Mosher | IGS ID 153026 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Johnson | IGS ID 153027 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Morr | IGS ID 153028 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Dietrich | IGS ID 153029 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Trachsel | IGS ID 153030 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| McConnell | IGS ID 153031 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Conrad | IGS ID 153032 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Schmitt | IGS ID 153033 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 27 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 Whitley County, IN?
Whitley County, Indiana has 27 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 27 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Whitley County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Whitley County, Indiana.
What share of wells in Whitley County are plugged?
27 of Whitley County's 27 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); Whitley County ranks 83rd with 27.
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 Whitley County, Indiana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/indiana/whitley (data as of October 10, 2026).