Oil & gas wells in Allen County, KY
2,852 catalogued wells in Allen County, Kentucky, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Allen County, Kentucky has 2,852 catalogued oil & gas wells: 264 active (9%), 1,431 plugged & abandoned (50%) and 354 documented orphans. It ranks 27th of the 90 Kentucky counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 1% of the state's 201,022 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
2,852
Active
264
Plugged
1,431
Documented orphans
354
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Allen County?
9% of Allen County's wells are active, 17 percentage points below the Kentucky share of 27%. 50% are plugged & abandoned, against 39% statewide and 47% nationally. 354 wells (12%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 8% across Kentucky and 4% nationally. The remaining 803 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Allen County?
By product class, 760 of the county's wells (27%) are oil wells, 15 (0.5%) gas wells and 5 (0.2%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 25% and the gas share 15%. The deepest total depth published for a Allen County well is 2,865 ft, against 16,108 ft for Kentucky as a whole. 83% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Allen County compare with other Kentucky counties?
Allen County has the 27th-most catalogued wells of the 90 Kentucky counties with at least 25. The median Kentucky county on WellCensus has 941 wells. The largest, Ohio County, has 11,631. By documented orphans it ranks 15th in Kentucky.
Who operates wells in Allen County?
542 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Allen County. 96% 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 Allen County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gibson Lumber Co 7 | 16-003-01977 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gator Oil Co |
| Long, J D 1 | 16-003-01904 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Clark, N G |
| Poe & Fleming 1 | 16-003-02129 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Tabor, Wes N-1 | 16-003-02045 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Burnett, Steven U-1 | 16-003-02166 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Smith, Randy 1 | 16-003-02185 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Sawyers Farm 1-A | 16-003-02192 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Ausbrooks, C L 4 | 16-003-02169 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Lambert, Haskell 1 | 16-003-00061 | Orphaned | Oil | Lambert, Ronald M |
| Hinton, Howard 6 | 16-003-00126 | Orphaned | Oil | Peachtree Avenue Energy, Inc |
| Moore, Tobie 1 | 16-003-00060 | Orphaned | Other type | Reliance Petroleum, Inc |
| Hinton, Howard 2 | 16-003-00120 | Other status | Oil | Peachtree Avenue Energy, Inc |
| Harper, Raymond 2a | 16-003-00526 | Orphaned | Other type | Yost, Clyde E |
| Neal, Marvin N-3 | 16-003-02007 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Samuel Simmons 2 | 16-003-02035 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Wilson & Webster 1 | 16-003-00001 | Orphaned | Other type | Wilson, Buel |
| Blackberry Blossom farm 2 | 16-003-02056 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Burnett, Steve 6 | 16-003-02101 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Burnett, Steven U-4 | 16-003-02168 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Harper, Raymond 7 | 16-003-00312 | Orphaned | Other type | Higgins Oil Co |
| Hinton, Jack 2 | 16-003-00315 | Orphaned | Other type | Hinton & Corley & Williams |
| Weaver, Carmon 2 | 16-003-00456 | Orphaned | Oil | Denton & Denton Drilling Co |
| Renick, Glendale 3 | 16-003-00296 | Orphaned | Oil | National Eastern Petroleum Corp |
| Renick, Glendale 4 | 16-003-00297 | Orphaned | Injection | National Eastern Petroleum Corp |
| Rush, Everett & Henry 1 | 16-003-00514 | Orphaned | Other type | Rush, Henry & Everett |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 2,852 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 Allen County, KY?
Allen County, Kentucky has 2,852 catalogued oil & gas wells: 264 active, 1,431 plugged and 354 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Allen County?
354 wells in Allen County, Kentucky are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 15th-highest count among Kentucky counties.
What share of wells in Allen County are plugged?
1,431 of Allen County's 2,852 catalogued wells (50%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 39% across Kentucky.
Which Kentucky county has the most oil and gas wells?
Ohio County has the most catalogued wells of any Kentucky county on WellCensus (11,631); Allen County ranks 27th with 2,852.
How many companies operate wells in Allen County?
542 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Allen County, Kentucky.
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About this data
Source: Kentucky 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 Allen County, Kentucky”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kentucky/allen (data as of October 10, 2026).