Oil & gas wells in Wabaunsee County, KS
585 catalogued wells in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Wabaunsee County, Kansas has 585 catalogued oil & gas wells: 54 active (9%), 434 plugged & abandoned (74%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 79th of the 104 Kansas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 473,140 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
585
Active
54
Plugged
434
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Wabaunsee County?
9% of Wabaunsee County's wells are active, 12 percentage points below the Kansas share of 21%. 74% are plugged & abandoned, against 55% statewide and 47% nationally. 26 wells (4%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Wabaunsee County; Kansas as a whole has 10,557. The remaining 71 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Wabaunsee County?
By product class, 134 of the county's wells (23%) are oil wells, 6 (1%) gas wells and 37 (6%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 42% and the gas share 9%. The deepest total depth published for a Wabaunsee County well is 5,562 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 Wabaunsee County compare with other Kansas counties?
Wabaunsee County has the 79th-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.
Who operates wells in Wabaunsee County?
57 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Wabaunsee County. 35% 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 Wabaunsee County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ss Farms 8-23 | 15-197-20256 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Berry Petroleum Company |
| Ss Farms 10-23 | 15-197-20257 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Berry Petroleum Company |
| Ss Farms 16-23 | 15-197-20258 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Berry Petroleum Company |
| Ss Farms 'Wd' 8-23 | 15-197-20259 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Berry Petroleum Company |
| Ss Farms 14-23 | 15-197-20260 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Berry Petroleum Company |
| Ss Farms 6-23 | 15-197-20261 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Berry Petroleum Company |
| Eldridge 32-3 | 15-197-20262 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Larson Operating Company |
| G. H. Davis 'A' 3 | 15-197-19000 | Active | Oil | M2J Operating LLC |
| G. H. Davis 'A' 4 | 15-197-19001 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Glacier Petroleum Co., Inc. |
| G. H. Davis 'A' 6 | 15-197-19002 | Active | Oil | M2J Operating LLC |
| G. H. Davis 'A' 10 | 15-197-19003 | Shut-in | Oil | M2J Operating LLC |
| G. H. Davis 'A' 11 | 15-197-19004 | Active | Oil | M2J Operating LLC |
| G. H. Davis 'A' 15 | 15-197-19006 | Active | Oil | M2J Operating LLC |
| G. H. Davis 'B' 3 | 15-197-19007 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Glacier Petroleum Co., Inc. |
| Davis 'C' 2 | 15-197-19008 | Active | Oil | M2J Operating LLC |
| G. H. Davis Consolidated 24 | 15-197-20191 | Other status | Other type | Exxon Mobil Corporation |
| Hodgins Trustees 1 | 15-197-19048 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Stewart 1 | 15-197-00046 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Woodbury 1 | 15-197-00088 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Mays, Sam W., Jr. Estate |
| Burrow-Wingate A 1 | 15-197-00089 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Buckli 1 | 15-197-00090 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Palenske 1 | 15-197-00091 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Zeckser 1 | 15-197-00092 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ashburn Droll 1 | 15-197-02002 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | — |
| Tell W. Buchli 2 | 15-197-02003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 585 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 Wabaunsee County, KS?
Wabaunsee County, Kansas has 585 catalogued oil & gas wells: 54 active, 434 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Wabaunsee County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Wabaunsee County, Kansas.
What share of wells in Wabaunsee County are plugged?
434 of Wabaunsee County's 585 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); Wabaunsee County ranks 79th with 585.
How many companies operate wells in Wabaunsee County?
57 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Wabaunsee 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 Wabaunsee County, Kansas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kansas/wabaunsee (data as of October 10, 2026).