Oil & gas wells in Ford County, KS
1,276 catalogued wells in Ford County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Ford County, Kansas has 1,276 catalogued oil & gas wells: 231 active (18%), 950 plugged & abandoned (74%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 70th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.3% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
1,276
Active
231
Plugged
950
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Ford County?
18% of Ford County's wells are active, 3 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 74% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 41 wells (3%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Ford County; Kansas as a whole has 10,557. The remaining 54 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Ford County?
By product class, 317 of the county's wells (25%) are oil wells, 102 (8%) gas wells and 39 (3%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Ford County well is 9,217 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 Ford County compare with other Kansas counties?
Ford County has the 70th-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 Ford County?
140 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Ford County. 66% 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 Ford County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davis 1-24 | 15-057-20555 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Coronado Petroleum Corporation |
| Kirkpatrick 1-11 | 15-057-20562 | Active | Gas | Edison Operating Company LLC |
| Ellis 'L' 1 | 15-057-20559 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pickrell Drilling Company Inc |
| Barngrover 'A' 1 | 15-057-20561 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pickrell Drilling Company Inc |
| Kgs 011 Kgs 71 | 15-057-20560 | Other status | Other type | ONEOK NGL Pipeline, LLC |
| Vice 1-14X | 15-057-20563 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Chesapeake Operating, LLC |
| Wetzel 'S' 1-13 | 15-057-20564 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | McCoy Petroleum Corporation |
| Wenke 1 | 15-057-20114 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Wyatt 2-34 | 15-057-20344 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Amy Main 1-30 | 15-057-20365 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Stegman M 1 | 15-057-20439 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Heskamp 1 | 15-057-20473 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Fowler 1 | 15-057-12656 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Wyatt 1 | 15-057-00050 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Farmland Industries 2-Dw | 15-057-20496 | Active | Injection | Farmland Industries, Inc. |
| Klenke 1 | 15-057-20195 | Active | Oil | TKO Investments, Inc. |
| Weddle, W.A. 1-A | 15-057-20229 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ladd Petroleum Corporation |
| White 23-2 | 15-057-20265 | Other status | Other type | Voyager Petroleums, Inc. |
| Schaller 5 | 15-057-20508 | Other status | Other type | Pintail Petroleum, Ltd. |
| Barnes 1 | 15-057-00032 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kirkpatrick 2 | 15-057-20565 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Roberts Resources, Inc. |
| Kirkpatrick 3 | 15-057-20566 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Roberts Resources, Inc. |
| V. L. Andrews 1 | 15-057-00082 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Helmers 1 | 15-057-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | — |
| Young B 1 | 15-057-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 1,276 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 Ford County, KS?
Ford County, Kansas has 1,276 catalogued oil & gas wells: 231 active, 950 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Ford County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Ford County, Kansas.
What share of wells in Ford County are plugged?
950 of Ford County's 1,276 catalogued wells (74%) 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); Ford County ranks 70th with 1,276.
How many companies operate wells in Ford County?
140 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Ford 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 Ford County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/ford (data as of October 10, 2026).