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Oil & gas wells in Republic County, KS

25 catalogued wells in Republic County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Republic County, Kansas has 25 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 4 plugged & abandoned (16%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 104th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.0% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.

Catalogued wells

25

Active

0

Plugged

4

Documented orphans

1

What is the status of oil and gas wells in Republic County?

0% of Republic County's wells are active, 21 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 16% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 16 wells (64%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 1 wells (4%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Kansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 4 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Republic County?

By product class, 1 of the county's wells (4%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Republic County well is 3,565 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 Republic County compare with other Kansas counties?

Republic County has the 104th-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 85th in Kansas.

Who operates wells in Republic County?

1 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Republic County. 76% 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.

Oil & gas wells in Republic County, KS
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
William H. Hirmon 115-157-00001Plugged & abandonedOther type—
Calvin E Schou 115-157-20001Plugged & abandonedOther type—
Moore 115-157-20002Shut-inOil—
Ngpl Ama 411 Lines 2,3,4 115-157-20003Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ngpl Ama 411 Lines 2,3,4 215-157-20004Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ngpl Ama 411 Lines 2,3,4 315-157-20005Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ngpl Ama 407 Line 2,3,4 115-157-20006Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ngpl Ama 407 Lines 2,3 215-157-20007Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 410 315-157-20017Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 401a 115-157-20008Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 401a 215-157-20009Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 401a 315-157-20010Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 403 115-157-20011Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 403 215-157-20012Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 410 115-157-20013Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 403 315-157-20014Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 410 215-157-20015Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 410 415-157-20016Shut-inOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Walker 115-157-00151Plugged & abandonedOther type—
Kouba, John 115-157-00155Plugged & abandonedOther type—
Ama 401 B1 115-157-20018Other statusOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 401 B2 215-157-20019Other statusOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 424 B1 115-157-20020Other statusOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC
Ama 424 B2 215-157-20021Other statusOther typeNatural Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 25 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 Republic County, KS?

Republic County, Kansas has 25 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 4 plugged and 1 documented orphans.

How many orphaned wells are in Republic County?

1 wells in Republic County, Kansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 85th-highest count among Kansas counties.

What share of wells in Republic County are plugged?

4 of Republic County's 25 catalogued wells (16%) 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); Republic County ranks 104th with 25.

How many companies operate wells in Republic County?

1 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Republic 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 Republic County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/republic (data as of October 10, 2026).