Oil & gas wells in Clark County, KS
1,984 catalogued wells in Clark County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Clark County, Kansas has 1,984 catalogued oil & gas wells: 273 active (14%), 1,508 plugged & abandoned (76%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 55th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.4% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
1,984
Active
273
Plugged
1,508
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Clark County?
14% of Clark County's wells are active, 8 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 76% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 91 wells (5%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 1 wells (0.1%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Kansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 111 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Clark County?
By product class, 401 of the county's wells (20%) are oil wells, 393 (20%) gas wells and 78 (4%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Clark County well is 8,060 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 Clark County compare with other Kansas counties?
Clark County has the 55th-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. By documented orphans it ranks 83rd in Kansas.
Who operates wells in Clark County?
232 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Clark County. 64% 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 Clark County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theis 2 | 15-025-10093 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Isenbart 19-1 | 15-025-21205 | Active | Oil | Red Hills Resources, Inc. |
| Theis 'W' 2-2 | 15-025-21211 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas Corp. |
| Barth 3 | 15-025-21215 | Shut-in | Gas | American Warrior, Inc. |
| Theis 2-9 | 15-025-21217 | Shut-in | Gas | Edison Operating Company LLC |
| Theis 4-18 | 15-025-21191 | Active | Gas | Edison Operating Company LLC |
| Amos 2-19 | 15-025-21230 | Active | Gas | Red Hills Resources, Inc. |
| Cozad 1-32 | 15-025-21236 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Harris Oil & Gas Company |
| Seacat 8 | 15-025-21238 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | American Warrior, Inc. |
| M680a 39.47 | 15-025-21239 | Shut-in | Other type | Northern Natural Gas Co. |
| Ashland-Conway 393.16 | 15-025-21176 | Shut-in | Other type | Mid-America Pipeline Company, LLC |
| Locke 1-7 | 15-025-21193 | Active | Gas | Edison Operating Company LLC |
| Ford County Land 1-30 | 15-025-21227 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dunne Equities Operating, Inc. |
| Degnan 1 | 15-025-21237 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Horseshoe Operating, Inc. |
| Juanita 1-5 | 15-025-21240 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Raydon Exploration, Inc. |
| Josephine 1-29 | 15-025-21203 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Mewbourne Oil Company |
| Shaw Trust 1-30 | 15-025-21207 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Vess Oil Corporation |
| Theis 'W' 2-2X | 15-025-21212 | Active | Gas | APEX Resources LLC |
| Giles 1-13 | 15-025-21220 | Active | Oil | Falcon Exploration, Inc. |
| Big Basin 1 | 15-025-21221 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Parwest Land Exploration, Inc. |
| Big Basin 2 | 15-025-21222 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Parwest Land Exploration, Inc. |
| Gardiner 1-36 | 15-025-21223 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Falcon Exploration, Inc. |
| Comstock Owwo 1-4 | 15-025-21224 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mull Drilling Company, Inc. |
| Stephens 1-11 | 15-025-21225 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Trans Pacific Oil Corporation |
| McMinimy 3-19 | 15-025-21233 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Manuel Corporation |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 1,984 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 Clark County, KS?
Clark County, Kansas has 1,984 catalogued oil & gas wells: 273 active, 1,508 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Clark County?
1 wells in Clark County, Kansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 83rd-highest count among Kansas counties.
What share of wells in Clark County are plugged?
1,508 of Clark County's 1,984 catalogued wells (76%) 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); Clark County ranks 55th with 1,984.
How many companies operate wells in Clark County?
232 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Clark 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 Clark County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/clark (data as of October 10, 2026).