Oil & gas wells in Mcpherson County, KS
5,412 catalogued wells in Mcpherson County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Mcpherson County, Kansas has 5,412 catalogued oil & gas wells: 715 active (13%), 4,003 plugged & abandoned (74%) and 22 documented orphans. It ranks 27th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 1% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
5,412
Active
715
Plugged
4,003
Documented orphans
22
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Mcpherson County?
13% of Mcpherson County's wells are active, 8 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 74% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 147 wells (3%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 22 wells (0.4%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Kansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 525 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Mcpherson County?
By product class, 2,858 of the county's wells (53%) are oil wells, 214 (4%) gas wells and 482 (9%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Mcpherson County well is 5,125 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 Mcpherson County compare with other Kansas counties?
Mcpherson County has the 27th-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 32nd in Kansas.
Who operates wells in Mcpherson County?
311 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Mcpherson County. 40% 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 Mcpherson County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pete Sundquist 1 | 15-113-19063 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Reese, Dale Curtis |
| Union 2 | 15-113-19062 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | National Cooperative Refinery Assoc. |
| Cobb 1 | 15-113-21164 | Other status | Other type | Culver & Grounds Oil Properties, Inc. |
| Ilene Peterson 6 | 15-113-21286 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | OCFIW Oil Company, Inc. |
| BECKER was BUKEY 'B' 5 | 15-113-19040 | Active | Oil | Scott's Production, LLC |
| G. E. Nelson 1 | 15-113-19042 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | M & L Oil Company |
| A. W. Carlson 3 | 15-113-19048 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Black, Frank J., Oil Operations, Inc. |
| A. W. Carlson 2 | 15-113-19049 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Black, Frank J., Oil Operations, Inc. |
| BECKER was BUKEY 'B' 1 | 15-113-19051 | Active | Oil | Scott's Production, LLC |
| Anderson B-1 | 15-113-19058 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Petroleum Development, Inc. |
| R. Decker Home Show 1 Swd | 15-113-20784 | Active | Injection | Te-Pe Oil & Gas |
| Rect N-7-5 | 15-113-21275 | Shut-in | Other type | ONEOK NGL Pipeline, LLC |
| Ilene Peterson 4 | 15-113-21287 | Active | Oil | Ressler Well Service, Inc. |
| Stucky 2 | 15-113-20009 | Active | Oil | Krehbiel, Jay |
| Eaton 9 | 15-113-02404 | Active | Gas | Te-Pe Oil & Gas |
| Pattee 1 | 15-113-19041 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Toll 1 | 15-113-19054 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Bukey 'B' 3 | 15-113-00847 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Rolander 1 | 15-113-19152 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Alvin Anderson 2 | 15-113-21042 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Petroleum Development, Inc. |
| Ostlund 2 | 15-113-01924 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Koehn, Alfred D.(deceased) |
| P A Decker 3 | 15-113-05446 | Shut-in | Injection | Shell Oil Company |
| Hanson 1 | 15-113-05789 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Rolander 1 | 15-113-05790 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Carlson 1 | 15-113-05791 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 5,412 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 Mcpherson County, KS?
Mcpherson County, Kansas has 5,412 catalogued oil & gas wells: 715 active, 4,003 plugged and 22 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Mcpherson County?
22 wells in Mcpherson County, Kansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 32nd-highest count among Kansas counties.
What share of wells in Mcpherson County are plugged?
4,003 of Mcpherson County's 5,412 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); Mcpherson County ranks 27th with 5,412.
How many companies operate wells in Mcpherson County?
311 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Mcpherson 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 Mcpherson County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/mcpherson (data as of October 10, 2026).