Oil & gas wells in Hodgeman County, KS
2,727 catalogued wells in Hodgeman County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Hodgeman County, Kansas has 2,727 catalogued oil & gas wells: 392 active (14%), 2,141 plugged & abandoned (79%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 48th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.6% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
2,727
Active
392
Plugged
2,141
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Hodgeman County?
14% of Hodgeman County's wells are active, 7 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 79% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 59 wells (2%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Hodgeman County; Kansas as a whole has 10,557. The remaining 135 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Hodgeman County?
By product class, 814 of the county's wells (30%) are oil wells, 33 (1%) gas wells and 180 (7%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Hodgeman County well is 9,144 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 Hodgeman County compare with other Kansas counties?
Hodgeman County has the 48th-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 Hodgeman County?
302 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Hodgeman County. 55% 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 Hodgeman County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basgall 1-34 | 15-083-21472 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Grand Mesa Operating Company |
| Hahn 'B' 1 | 15-083-21476 | Active | Oil | Vess Oil Corporation |
| Cox 1 | 15-083-21473 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Becker Oil Corporation |
| Shriwise 1 | 15-083-21477 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Raymond Oil Company, Inc. |
| Berger 1-18 | 15-083-21478 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Key Gas Corp. |
| Hendrickson 2 | 15-083-20081 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cure 1 | 15-083-20084 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Gleason 'B' 4 | 15-083-20114 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | — |
| Dovel 'A' 1 | 15-083-20116 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Dixon 'E' 1 | 15-083-20186 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Clark 1 | 15-083-20364 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Durler 1 | 15-083-20376 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Eileen 1 | 15-083-20380 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lee 'A' 8 | 15-083-20391 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Steffen 1 | 15-083-20455 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Nielsen 'F' 1 | 15-083-20579 | Other status | Other type | Slawson, Donald C. |
| Brown 1 | 15-083-20604 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Bamberger 1 | 15-083-20617 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Spreier 'C' 1 | 15-083-20619 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Nelson, L.R. 1 | 15-083-20666 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Miller E 1 | 15-083-20697 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Wellensick, Marie 2 | 15-083-20749 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Holtzberg 1 | 15-083-20750 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Kreider 1 | 15-083-20763 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Cohoon 'K' 10 | 15-083-20772 | Other status | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 2,727 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 Hodgeman County, KS?
Hodgeman County, Kansas has 2,727 catalogued oil & gas wells: 392 active, 2,141 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Hodgeman County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Hodgeman County, Kansas.
What share of wells in Hodgeman County are plugged?
2,141 of Hodgeman County's 2,727 catalogued wells (79%) 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); Hodgeman County ranks 48th with 2,727.
How many companies operate wells in Hodgeman County?
302 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Hodgeman 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 Hodgeman County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/hodgeman (data as of October 10, 2026).