Oil & gas wells in Trego County, KS
4,450 catalogued wells in Trego County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Trego County, Kansas has 4,450 catalogued oil & gas wells: 792 active (18%), 3,304 plugged & abandoned (74%) and 11 documented orphans. It ranks 31st of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.9% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
4,450
Active
792
Plugged
3,304
Documented orphans
11
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Trego County?
18% of Trego County's wells are active, 4 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 74% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 39 wells (0.9%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 11 wells (0.2%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Kansas and 4% nationally. The remaining 304 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Trego County?
By product class, 1,854 of the county's wells (42%) are oil wells, 1 (0.0%) gas wells and 271 (6%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Trego County well is 9,871 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 Trego County compare with other Kansas counties?
Trego County has the 31st-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 46th in Kansas.
Who operates wells in Trego County?
373 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Trego 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 Trego County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brenner 2 | 15-195-22205 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Trek AEC, LLC |
| Bailey Trust 'C' 1 | 15-195-22217 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Trek AEC, LLC |
| Duncan 1 | 15-195-22219 | Active | Oil | SMG Resources LLC |
| Bodine 1 | 15-195-22201 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Denis Roberts Oil |
| Kuhn 1-13 | 15-195-22214 | Active | Oil | Downing-Nelson Oil Co Inc |
| Armbrister 1-1 | 15-195-22221 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Downing-Nelson Oil Co Inc |
| Newcomer-Kinzey 'B' 1-12 | 15-195-22222 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Downing-Nelson Oil Co Inc |
| Cedar Bluff North 1 | 15-195-22199 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | ESP Development, Inc. |
| Ogallah Unit 4-16 | 15-195-22200 | Active | Oil | Carmen Schmitt, Inc. |
| Ogallah Unit 6-7 | 15-195-22202 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Carmen Schmitt, Inc. |
| Zeigler 1 | 15-195-22206 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Great Eastern Energy & Dev. Corp. |
| Cromb 'B' 1 | 15-195-22213 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Great Eastern Energy & Dev. Corp. |
| Hixson A 3 | 15-195-22220 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Bear Petroleum, LLC |
| Fischer 2-13 | 15-195-22225 | Active | Oil | Downing-Nelson Oil Co Inc |
| OGALLAH UNIT, was SCHOENTHALER 11 4-11 | 15-195-32683 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Carmen Schmitt, Inc. |
| Kuhn Trust 1-23 | 15-195-22226 | Active | Oil | Downing-Nelson Oil Co Inc |
| Strain 1 | 15-195-00030 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Rinker 1 | 15-195-00048 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lindsay 1 | 15-195-00052 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Kutina 1 | 15-195-00055 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Unrein 1 | 15-195-00056 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Weideman 1 | 15-195-00059 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Reidel 1 | 15-195-00061 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| J. G. Hixson 1 | 15-195-00065 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lecuyer 1 | 15-195-00066 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 4,450 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 Trego County, KS?
Trego County, Kansas has 4,450 catalogued oil & gas wells: 792 active, 3,304 plugged and 11 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Trego County?
11 wells in Trego County, Kansas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 46th-highest count among Kansas counties.
What share of wells in Trego County are plugged?
3,304 of Trego County's 4,450 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); Trego County ranks 31st with 4,450.
How many companies operate wells in Trego County?
373 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Trego 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 Trego County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/trego (data as of October 10, 2026).