Oil & gas wells in Cowley County, KS
10,443 catalogued wells in Cowley County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Cowley County, Kansas has 10,443 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,481 active (14%), 8,044 plugged & abandoned (77%) and 99 documented orphans. It ranks 14th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 2% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
10,443
Active
1,481
Plugged
8,044
Documented orphans
99
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Cowley County?
14% of Cowley County's wells are active, 7 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 77% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 133 wells (1%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 99 wells (0.9%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Kansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 686 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Cowley County?
By product class, 4,804 of the county's wells (46%) are oil wells, 436 (4%) gas wells and 896 (9%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Cowley County well is 6,146 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 Cowley County compare with other Kansas counties?
Cowley County has the 14th-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 19th in Kansas.
Who operates wells in Cowley County?
430 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Cowley County. 39% 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 Cowley County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnett 1 | 15-035-24126 | Orphaned | Oil | Millennium Oil & Gas, Inc. |
| Hiatt 1-1 | 15-035-24137 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | The Trees Oil Company |
| Roger Black 1 | 15-035-19075 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gas Transmission Organization, Inc. |
| Eldorado-Coffeyville Mp 31.05 | 15-035-24107 | Shut-in | Other type | Mid-America Pipeline Company, LLC |
| Hittle 3 | 15-035-24130 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Anstine & Musgrove Inc. |
| Bolack 'B' 3-A | 15-035-24133 | Active | Oil | Novy Oil & Gas, Inc. |
| Birdzell 'P' 1 | 15-035-24146 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | CEC Operations LLC |
| Whitehill P-1 | 15-035-24150 | Active | Gas | Pipes, Daniel |
| Whitacre 2 | 15-035-24151 | Active | Gas | CEC Operations LLC |
| P. Mcfarland 2 | 15-035-24155 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | CEC Operations LLC |
| Mcfarland P-1 | 15-035-24152 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | CEC Operations LLC |
| Swain P-1 | 15-035-24153 | Active | Injection | Bear Petroleum, LLC |
| Chase 5 | 15-035-24164 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Range Oil Company, Inc. |
| Hooser 2 | 15-035-24117 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Coffeyville Resources Crude Transportation, LLC |
| Ferguson 17-1 | 15-035-24120 | Active | Oil | F. Howard Walsh, Jr. Oper. Co., Inc. |
| A. Wish 1 | 15-035-24163 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Crest Petroleum, Inc. |
| Well API 15-035-90002 | 15-035-90002 | Active | Injection | — |
| Wilson 1 | 15-035-20692 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Payne 7 | 15-035-20728 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Snyder 'A' 2 | 15-035-21754 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Gurskey 2-A | 15-035-21839 | Other status | Other type | — |
| David 'C' 3 | 15-035-21885 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Mead 1 | 15-035-22045 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| First National Bank 2-A | 15-035-22195 | Active | Oil | Victory Minerals LLC |
| Jarvis 1 | 15-035-22405 | Other status | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 10,443 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 Cowley County, KS?
Cowley County, Kansas has 10,443 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,481 active, 8,044 plugged and 99 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Cowley County?
99 wells in Cowley County, Kansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 19th-highest count among Kansas counties.
What share of wells in Cowley County are plugged?
8,044 of Cowley County's 10,443 catalogued wells (77%) 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); Cowley County ranks 14th with 10,443.
How many companies operate wells in Cowley County?
430 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Cowley 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 Cowley County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/cowley (data as of October 10, 2026).