Oil & gas wells in Kingman County, KS
4,267 catalogued wells in Kingman County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Kingman County, Kansas has 4,267 catalogued oil & gas wells: 941 active (22%), 2,993 plugged & abandoned (70%) and 10 documented orphans. It ranks 34th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.9% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
4,267
Active
941
Plugged
2,993
Documented orphans
10
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Kingman County?
22% of Kingman County's wells are active, close to the Kansas share of 21%. 70% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 176 wells (4%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 10 wells (0.2%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Kansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 147 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Kingman County?
By product class, 1,412 of the county's wells (33%) are oil wells, 807 (19%) gas wells and 218 (5%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Kingman County well is 8,709 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 Kingman County compare with other Kansas counties?
Kingman County has the 34th-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 48th in Kansas.
Who operates wells in Kingman County?
303 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Kingman County. 59% 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 Kingman County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morris & Wolf 2-35 | 15-095-21764 | Active | Gas | Atlas Operating LLC |
| Washbon 'A' 1 | 15-095-21777 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hartman Oil Co., Inc. |
| Rectifier N-12 | 15-095-21780 | Other status | Other type | Koch Exploration Company |
| Adelhardt 1 | 15-095-21784 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | R & B Oil & Gas, Inc. |
| Whitmer 'B' 3-9 | 15-095-21787 | Active | Oil | Herman L. Loeb, LLC |
| Adelhardt 2 | 15-095-21788 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | R & B Oil & Gas, Inc. |
| Gillen 1 | 15-095-21793 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Messenger Petroleum, Inc. |
| Hawley 1-16 | 15-095-21794 | Active | Oil | Downing-Nelson Oil Co Inc |
| A. R. Carrick 7 | 15-095-21795 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Messenger Petroleum, Inc. |
| Kaufman 2 | 15-095-21797 | Shut-in | Oil | Messenger Petroleum, Inc. |
| P. Brown 1-11 | 15-095-21798 | Active | Oil | Lario Oil & Gas Company |
| Duckworth 2 | 15-095-01197 | Active | Gas | Buffalo Operating Corporation |
| Freund 1 | 15-095-21801 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Energy Three, Inc. |
| Klausmeyer 'A' 2-11 | 15-095-21807 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Herman L. Loeb, LLC |
| Klausmeyer 'A' 1-11 | 15-095-21775 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | McCoy Petroleum Corporation |
| Rectifier N-13 | 15-095-21778 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | ONEOK NGL Pipeline, LLC |
| Rectifier N 4.25 | 15-095-21779 | Shut-in | Other type | ONEOK NGL Pipeline, LLC |
| Rectifier N 4.75 | 15-095-21781 | Shut-in | Other type | ONEOK NGL Pipeline, LLC |
| Walters 3 | 15-095-19016 | Active | Oil | Mull Drilling Company, Inc. |
| Garrison 3 | 15-095-21800 | Active | Oil | MTM Petroleum, Inc. |
| Robinson 14-5 | 15-095-21796 | Active | Oil | C & K Operating LLC |
| Well API 15-095-90004 | 15-095-90004 | Active | Injection | — |
| Fearey 1-10 | 15-095-21812 | Active | Gas | Lario Oil & Gas Company |
| Pauline Oak 1 | 15-095-21813 | Active | Gas | MTM Petroleum, Inc. |
| Krehbiel 'A' 2 | 15-095-21815 | Active | Oil | MTM Petroleum, Inc. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 4,267 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 Kingman County, KS?
Kingman County, Kansas has 4,267 catalogued oil & gas wells: 941 active, 2,993 plugged and 10 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Kingman County?
10 wells in Kingman County, Kansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 48th-highest count among Kansas counties.
What share of wells in Kingman County are plugged?
2,993 of Kingman County's 4,267 catalogued wells (70%) 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); Kingman County ranks 34th with 4,267.
How many companies operate wells in Kingman County?
303 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Kingman 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 Kingman County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/kingman (data as of October 10, 2026).