Oil & gas wells in Estill County, KY
3,157 catalogued wells in Estill County, Kentucky, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Estill County, Kentucky has 3,157 catalogued oil & gas wells: 530 active (17%), 514 plugged & abandoned (16%) and 586 documented orphans. It ranks 24th of the 90 Kentucky counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 2% of the state's 201,022 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
3,157
Active
530
Plugged
514
Documented orphans
586
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Estill County?
17% of Estill County's wells are active, 10 percentage points below the Kentucky share of 27%. 16% are plugged & abandoned, against 39% statewide and 47% nationally. 586 wells (19%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 8% across Kentucky and 4% nationally. The remaining 1,527 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Estill County?
By product class, 1,143 of the county's wells (36%) are oil wells, 42 (1%) gas wells and 56 (2%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 25% and the gas share 15%. The deepest total depth published for a Estill County well is 6,817 ft, against 16,108 ft for Kentucky as a whole. 66% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Estill County compare with other Kentucky counties?
Estill County has the 24th-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 9th in Kentucky.
Who operates wells in Estill County?
241 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Estill County. 85% 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 Estill County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rogers 6 | 16-031-01220 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Uae Investco 1(Estill), LLC |
| Wallace Heirs 4 | 16-065-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Ro-Co Corp |
| Lowery, Matt Heirs 6a | 16-065-00002 | Active | Oil | Pasley, Charles |
| Maple & Co 5 | 16-065-00003 | Active | Oil | Bonanza Oil Co, Inc |
| Witt, Et Al 3a | 16-065-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Bonanza Oil Co, Inc |
| Flynn, Opel 1a | 16-065-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Bonanza Oil Co, Inc |
| South East Coal Co 1 | 16-065-00006 | Orphaned | Gas | South East Coal Co |
| Flynn, Opel 2a | 16-065-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Bonanza Oil Co, Inc |
| Crowe, Dan 5a | 16-065-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Bonanza Oil Co, Inc |
| Crowe, Dan 2a | 16-065-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Bonanza Oil Co, Inc |
| Jenkins, Stanley & Ruth 2 | 16-065-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Double T Energy |
| Witt, Et Al 6 | 16-065-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Carpenter Oil Co |
| Witt, Etal 4 | 16-065-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Carpenter Oil Co |
| Witt, Et Al 5 | 16-065-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Carpenter Oil Co |
| Witt, Et Al 7 | 16-065-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Carpenter Oil Co |
| Witt, Et Al 8 | 16-065-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Carpenter Oil Co |
| Rogers, Mabel 1 | 16-065-00016 | Active | Oil | Royal State Drilling Corp |
| Daniels, J W 1 | 16-065-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Reynolds, William K |
| Rogers, R L Heirs (Clay Rogers) 8 | 16-065-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Reynolds, William K |
| Rogers, R L Heirs (Clay Rogers) 9 | 16-065-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Reynolds, William K |
| Hardy, Boyd 1 | 16-065-00020 | Orphaned | Oil | Foley, Omer C |
| Rogers, Harry C 2 | 16-065-00021 | Orphaned | Oil | Foley, Omer C |
| Rogers, Harry C 3 | 16-065-00022 | Orphaned | Oil | Foley, Omer C |
| Frazier, O C 7 | 16-065-00023 | Orphaned | Oil | Frazier, O C |
| Richardson, Harry 2 | 16-065-00024 | Other status | Oil | Yaden, Donnie G |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 3,157 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 Estill County, KY?
Estill County, Kentucky has 3,157 catalogued oil & gas wells: 530 active, 514 plugged and 586 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Estill County?
586 wells in Estill County, Kentucky are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 9th-highest count among Kentucky counties.
What share of wells in Estill County are plugged?
514 of Estill County's 3,157 catalogued wells (16%) 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); Estill County ranks 24th with 3,157.
How many companies operate wells in Estill County?
241 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Estill 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 Estill County, Kentucky”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kentucky/estill (data as of October 10, 2026).