Oil & gas wells in Bath County, KY
269 catalogued wells in Bath County, Kentucky, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Bath County, Kentucky has 269 catalogued oil & gas wells: 49 active (18%), 146 plugged & abandoned (54%) and 24 documented orphans. It ranks 68th of the 90 Kentucky counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 201,022 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
269
Active
49
Plugged
146
Documented orphans
24
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Bath County?
18% of Bath County's wells are active, 8 percentage points below the Kentucky share of 27%. 54% are plugged & abandoned, against 39% statewide and 47% nationally. 24 wells (9%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 8% across Kentucky and 4% nationally. The remaining 50 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Bath County?
By product class, 94 of the county's wells (35%) are oil wells, 30 (11%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 25% and the gas share 15%. The deepest total depth published for a Bath County well is 2,599 ft, against 16,108 ft for Kentucky as a whole. 53% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Bath County compare with other Kentucky counties?
Bath County has the 68th-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 51st in Kentucky.
Who operates wells in Bath County?
51 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Bath County. 97% 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 Bath County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer, Kenneth & Delores 1 | 16-011-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Daley, W Et Al |
| Cole, Celia B 1 | 16-011-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Friestad, Francis |
| Hardin, Junior 1 | 16-011-00003 | Orphaned | Gas | Friestad, Francis |
| Hardin, Junior 2 | 16-011-00004 | Orphaned | Oil | Friestad, Francis |
| Hardin, Junior 3 | 16-011-00005 | Orphaned | Other type | Friestad, Francis |
| Karrick, Roger 1 | 16-011-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Friestad, Francis |
| Richardson, Earl 2 | 16-011-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Friestad, Francis |
| Wright, James W 1 | 16-011-00008 | Orphaned | Other type | Friestad, Francis |
| Wright, James W 2 | 16-011-00009 | Orphaned | Gas | Friestad, Francis |
| Perkins, Winfred 1 | 16-011-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mustang Petroleum, Inc |
| Knutson, Victor S 1 | 16-011-00011 | Orphaned | Gas | Gillespie, G M |
| Hart, Charles B Jr 1a | 16-011-00012 | Active | Gas | Tiger Minerals & Exploration, In |
| Hart, Charles B Jr 2 | 16-011-00013 | Active | Gas | Tiger Minerals & Exploration, In |
| Hart, Charles B Sr 1 | 16-011-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Tiger Minerals & Exploration, In |
| Rose Run Mineral Co T6 | 16-011-00015 | Orphaned | Gas | Bill Talbott Drilling Co |
| Crouch, Thomas 1 | 16-011-00016 | Orphaned | Other type | Royal State Drilling Corp |
| Flannery, Warren J 1 | 16-011-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Marigold, Inc |
| Short, Willard 1 | 16-011-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Mustang Petroleum, Inc |
| Richardson, James 1 | 16-011-00019 | Orphaned | Other type | Friestad, Francis |
| Richardson, James 1 | 16-011-00020 | Orphaned | Other type | Friestad, Francis |
| Mann, Warren Ray 3 | 16-011-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mustang Petroleum, Inc |
| Mann, Warren Ray 2 | 16-011-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mustang Petroleum, Inc |
| Wilson, James Henry 1 | 16-011-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Tiger Minerals & Exploration, In |
| Razor, Jim 1 | 16-011-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Tiger Minerals & Exploration, In |
| Howard, Ronnie & Juanita 1 | 16-011-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Maze, Jim & Mitchell Crooks |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 269 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 Bath County, KY?
Bath County, Kentucky has 269 catalogued oil & gas wells: 49 active, 146 plugged and 24 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Bath County?
24 wells in Bath County, Kentucky are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 51st-highest count among Kentucky counties.
What share of wells in Bath County are plugged?
146 of Bath County's 269 catalogued wells (54%) 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); Bath County ranks 68th with 269.
How many companies operate wells in Bath County?
51 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Bath 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 Bath County, Kentucky”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kentucky/bath (data as of October 10, 2026).