Oil & gas wells in Brown County, KS
103 catalogued wells in Brown County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Brown County, Kansas has 103 catalogued oil & gas wells: 11 active (11%), 70 plugged & abandoned (68%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 94th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.0% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
103
Active
11
Plugged
70
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Brown County?
11% of Brown County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 68% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (1.0%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Brown County; Kansas as a whole has 10,557. The remaining 21 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Brown County?
By product class, 22 of the county's wells (21%) are oil wells, 4 (4%) gas wells and 3 (3%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Brown County well is 5,761 ft, against 11,300 ft for Kansas as a whole. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Brown County compare with other Kansas counties?
Brown County has the 94th-most catalogued wells of the 104 Kansas counties with at least 25. The median Kansas county on WellCensus has 2,220 wells. The largest, Montgomery County, has 21,956.
Who operates wells in Brown County?
13 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Brown County. 50% of the county's wells carry a link to a canonical operator profile; the rest list no operator or a name not yet resolved. Each well's page names its operator where the state publishes one.
Wells in Brown County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oltjen 1-2 | 15-013-20029 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Forest City LLC |
| Tietjens 1-12 | 15-013-20030 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Forest City LLC |
| Titus 1 | 15-013-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Rottinghaus 1 | 15-013-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bruce 1 | 15-013-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Tyler 1 | 15-013-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Yaussi 1 | 15-013-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Spiker 1 | 15-013-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Turner 1 | 15-013-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Butterfield 1 | 15-013-19002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Van Epps 1 | 15-013-19011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Gall 1 | 15-013-19006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brook 1 | 15-013-19015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Glenn 1 | 15-013-19013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Findley 1 | 15-013-19012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fiechter 1 | 15-013-19014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Hagge 1 | 15-013-19017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Wenger 1 | 15-013-19016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Steinbrink 1 | 15-013-19008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Korthanke 1 | 15-013-19009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Tony Torkelson 1 | 15-013-20002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cornelison 1 | 15-013-20003 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Bauer 1 | 15-013-20004 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Howerton 1 | 15-013-20006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Bechtold 1 | 15-013-20009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 103 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 Brown County, KS?
Brown County, Kansas has 103 catalogued oil & gas wells: 11 active, 70 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Brown County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Brown County, Kansas.
What share of wells in Brown County are plugged?
70 of Brown County's 103 catalogued wells (68%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 55% across Kansas.
Which Kansas county has the most oil and gas wells?
Montgomery County has the most catalogued wells of any Kansas county on WellCensus (21,956); Brown County ranks 94th with 103.
How many companies operate wells in Brown County?
13 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Brown County, Kansas.
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About this data
Source: Kansas Geological Survey 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 Brown County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/brown (data as of October 10, 2026).