Oil & gas wells in Gove County, KS
2,719 catalogued wells in Gove County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Gove County, Kansas has 2,719 catalogued oil & gas wells: 519 active (19%), 1,971 plugged & abandoned (72%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 49th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.6% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
2,719
Active
519
Plugged
1,971
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Gove County?
19% of Gove County's wells are active, 2 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 72% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 35 wells (1%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Gove County; Kansas as a whole has 10,557. The remaining 194 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Gove County?
By product class, 926 of the county's wells (34%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 150 (6%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Gove County well is 8,454 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 Gove County compare with other Kansas counties?
Gove County has the 49th-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 Gove County?
283 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Gove County. 68% 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 Gove County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prather 1 | 15-063-21544 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Globe Operating, Inc. |
| Porter 2 | 15-063-21545 | Active | Oil | Edison Operating Company LLC |
| Coberly Partnership 1 | 15-063-21546 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Connelly Exploration Inc. |
| Broadhurst 2 | 15-063-21553 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Globe Operating, Inc. |
| Coberly Trust 1 | 15-063-21556 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Northern Lights Oil Company, LLC |
| Bentley 1-28 | 15-063-21565 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Questa Energy Corporation |
| North Glenn 2 B 29 | 15-063-21549 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | L. D. Drilling, Inc. |
| Bartlett 1-2 | 15-063-21550 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | L. D. Drilling, Inc. |
| Davis 'A' 1-32 | 15-063-21551 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Trans Pacific Oil Corporation |
| Davis 'B' 1-26 | 15-063-21552 | Active | Oil | Trans Pacific Oil Corporation |
| James P. Losey Trust 1 | 15-063-21555 | Active | Oil | Mai Oil Operations, Inc. |
| Davis 'C' 1-27 | 15-063-21557 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Trans Pacific Oil Corporation |
| Albin 'A' 1-35 | 15-063-21559 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Trans Pacific Oil Corporation |
| Davis 'C' 2-27 | 15-063-21560 | Active | Oil | Trans Pacific Oil Corporation |
| Bentley 'A' 1-36 | 15-063-21566 | Active | Oil | Trans Pacific Oil Corporation |
| Clark 'B' 1 | 15-063-20153 | Shut-in | Oil | Apollo Energies, Inc. |
| Beck 2 Owwo | 15-063-20541 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Falcon Exploration, Inc. |
| Kinderknecht 1 | 15-063-20553 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Roberts 'B' 1-35 | 15-063-21572 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Trans Pacific Oil Corporation |
| Fleming Ranch 1-11 | 15-063-21573 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | American Warrior, Inc. |
| Wright Helen 1-8 | 15-063-20019 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Fagerborg A 1 | 15-063-20157 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Priefert 1 | 15-063-20203 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Dazey 4 | 15-063-20373 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Thies/Larry 1 | 15-063-20406 | Other status | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 2,719 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 Gove County, KS?
Gove County, Kansas has 2,719 catalogued oil & gas wells: 519 active, 1,971 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Gove County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Gove County, Kansas.
What share of wells in Gove County are plugged?
1,971 of Gove County's 2,719 catalogued wells (72%) 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); Gove County ranks 49th with 2,719.
How many companies operate wells in Gove County?
283 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Gove 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 Gove County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/gove (data as of October 10, 2026).