Oil & gas wells in Norton County, KS
1,360 catalogued wells in Norton County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Norton County, Kansas has 1,360 catalogued oil & gas wells: 192 active (14%), 1,090 plugged & abandoned (80%) and 5 documented orphans. It ranks 68th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.3% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
1,360
Active
192
Plugged
1,090
Documented orphans
5
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Norton County?
14% of Norton County's wells are active, 7 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 80% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 15 wells (1%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 5 wells (0.4%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Kansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 58 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Norton County?
By product class, 501 of the county's wells (37%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 53 (4%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Norton County well is 4,216 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 Norton County compare with other Kansas counties?
Norton County has the 68th-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 66th in Kansas.
Who operates wells in Norton County?
131 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Norton County. 56% 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 Norton County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Julie 1 | 15-137-20417 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Enerstar Resources O&G L L.C. |
| Sansom 1 | 15-137-20418 | Active | Oil | FourWinds Oil Corporation |
| Ninemire 1-20 | 15-137-20413 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Murfin Drilling Co., Inc. |
| Wallace Reynolds 1-16 | 15-137-20416 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Murfin Drilling Co., Inc. |
| Marcus 1 | 15-137-20412 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Castle Resources, Inc. |
| Lake Norton 1 | 15-137-20015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Slipke 1 | 15-137-20130 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Walters 1 | 15-137-20250 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Sanders 1 | 15-137-00628 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Jacobson 2 | 15-137-00613 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kitzke 10 | 15-137-00719 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | — |
| Sullivan E 1 | 15-137-18221 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Fox 1 | 15-137-00645 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kitzke 9 | 15-137-00718 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | — |
| Calfee 1 | 15-137-00663 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kitzke 2 | 15-137-00658 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Veeh A 10 | 15-137-00315 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | — |
| Stephen 'B' 1 | 15-137-20238 | Active | Oil | Gore Oil Company |
| Cope 1 | 15-137-00500 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Hansen, Dane G. - Trust |
| Cope 4 | 15-137-00502 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Hansen, Dane G. - Trust |
| Cope 5 | 15-137-00633 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hansen, Dane G. - Trust |
| Cope 3 | 15-137-00632 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hansen, Dane G. - Trust |
| Cope 6 | 15-137-00695 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Hansen, Dane G. - Trust |
| Cope 2 | 15-137-00501 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Hansen, Dane G. - Trust |
| Horning 2 | 15-137-00697 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Gore Oil Company |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 1,360 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 Norton County, KS?
Norton County, Kansas has 1,360 catalogued oil & gas wells: 192 active, 1,090 plugged and 5 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Norton County?
5 wells in Norton County, Kansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 66th-highest count among Kansas counties.
What share of wells in Norton County are plugged?
1,090 of Norton County's 1,360 catalogued wells (80%) 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); Norton County ranks 68th with 1,360.
How many companies operate wells in Norton County?
131 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Norton County, Kansas.
Nearby in the Kansas rankings
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 Norton County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/norton (data as of October 10, 2026).