Oil & gas wells in Clinton County, KY
8,361 catalogued wells in Clinton County, Kentucky, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Clinton County, Kentucky has 8,361 catalogued oil & gas wells: 810 active (10%), 4,765 plugged & abandoned (57%) and 879 documented orphans. It ranks 6th of the 90 Kentucky counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 4% of the state's 201,022 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
8,361
Active
810
Plugged
4,765
Documented orphans
879
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Clinton County?
10% of Clinton County's wells are active, 17 percentage points below the Kentucky share of 27%. 57% are plugged & abandoned, against 39% statewide and 47% nationally. 879 wells (11%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 8% across Kentucky and 4% nationally. The remaining 1,907 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Clinton County?
By product class, 2,242 of the county's wells (27%) are oil wells, 337 (4%) gas wells and 7 (0.1%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 25% and the gas share 15%. The deepest total depth published for a Clinton County well is 4,828 ft, against 16,108 ft for Kentucky as a whole. 95% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Clinton County compare with other Kentucky counties?
Clinton County has the 6th-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 4th in Kentucky.
Who operates wells in Clinton County?
1,074 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Clinton County. 99% 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 Clinton County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Honeycutt, John 1 | 16-053-06005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Speck, Cecil |
| Cook, Lyman 1 | 16-053-05633 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gay, O T |
| Campbell, John & Charles 8 | 16-053-05556 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cumberland Oil Corp |
| Campbell, Charlie 2n | 16-053-01517 | Orphaned | Oil | Cumberland Oil Corp |
| Campbell, John & Charles 10 | 16-053-05557 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dyer, Ira B |
| Riddle, Baker 1 | 16-053-01470 | Orphaned | Oil | Energy Consultants & Investments |
| Armstrong, J E 1 | 16-053-01484 | Orphaned | Gas | Ervin, Walter |
| Well API 16-053-06823 | 16-053-06823 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Well API 16-053-06832 | 16-053-06832 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Well API 16-053-04749 | 16-053-04749 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unknown |
| Beaty, Denver & Wayne 2 | 16-053-01354 | Orphaned | Gas | Mcwhorter Drilling Co |
| Campbell, Charlie 10 | 16-053-01512 | Orphaned | Oil | Cumberland Oil Corp |
| Jess Kein Heirs 1np | 16-053-07474 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Tallent, Edwin Miller E2 | 16-053-07577 | Other status | Other type | Unknown |
| Ryan, N C 1a | 16-053-00047 | Orphaned | Oil | Modern Vending Co, Inc |
| Stockton, Dan 2 | 16-053-00081 | Orphaned | Oil | Gossett, William A |
| Owens, Ernest 1 | 16-053-00095 | Orphaned | Gas | Gossett, William A |
| Stockton, Smith Jr 1 | 16-053-00098 | Orphaned | Oil | Gossett, William A |
| Powell, William 1 | 16-053-00101 | Orphaned | Oil | Gossett, William A |
| Cash, Nora 1 | 16-053-00111 | Orphaned | Gas | James E Smith Drilling Co |
| Craft, Byron G 1 | 16-053-00114 | Orphaned | Oil | Mcwhorter Drilling Co |
| Cole, Margie & Melton, Don 1 | 16-053-00117 | Orphaned | Gas | Smith, James E |
| Shelley, Clement 4 | 16-053-00133 | Orphaned | Oil | Western Reserves Oil Co |
| Shelley, Clement 8 | 16-053-00134 | Orphaned | Oil | Western Reserves Oil Co |
| Beaty, Reed 6 | 16-053-00129 | Orphaned | Oil | Tristar Petroleum Corp |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 8,361 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 Clinton County, KY?
Clinton County, Kentucky has 8,361 catalogued oil & gas wells: 810 active, 4,765 plugged and 879 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Clinton County?
879 wells in Clinton County, Kentucky are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 4th-highest count among Kentucky counties.
What share of wells in Clinton County are plugged?
4,765 of Clinton County's 8,361 catalogued wells (57%) 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); Clinton County ranks 6th with 8,361.
How many companies operate wells in Clinton County?
1,074 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Clinton 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 Clinton County, Kentucky”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kentucky/clinton (data as of October 10, 2026).