Oil & gas wells in Henderson County, KY
9,491 catalogued wells in Henderson County, Kentucky, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Henderson County, Kentucky has 9,491 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,976 active (21%), 4,897 plugged & abandoned (52%) and 700 documented orphans. It ranks 4th of the 90 Kentucky counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 5% of the state's 201,022 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
9,491
Active
1,976
Plugged
4,897
Documented orphans
700
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Henderson County?
21% of Henderson County's wells are active, 6 percentage points below the Kentucky share of 27%. 52% are plugged & abandoned, against 39% statewide and 47% nationally. 5 wells (0.1%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 700 wells (7%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 8% across Kentucky and 4% nationally. The remaining 1,913 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Henderson County?
By product class, 3,679 of the county's wells (39%) are oil wells, 47 (0.5%) gas wells and 474 (5%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 25% and the gas share 15%. The deepest total depth published for a Henderson County well is 5,035 ft, against 16,108 ft for Kentucky as a whole. 91% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Henderson County compare with other Kentucky counties?
Henderson County has the 4th-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 6th in Kentucky.
Who operates wells in Henderson County?
1,277 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Henderson County. 95% 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 Henderson County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Griffith, Dan M 1 | 16-059-00382 | Other status | Other type | Great Western Drilling Co |
| Pike. Lee 1 | 16-059-07150 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cadillac Oil Et Al |
| Towery, M O & Prudential 4 | 16-059-01110 | Other status | Other type | Indiana Farm Bureau |
| Towery, M O & Prudential 5 | 16-059-01111 | Other status | Other type | Indiana Farm Bureau |
| Byrne, D L 1 | 16-059-07193 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hoffman, George A |
| Gregory, W B 7 | 16-101-07104 | Other status | Other type | Aurora Gasoline Co |
| Payne, L R 2 | 16-101-07332 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Vickery Drilling Co |
| Payne, Louis 1 | 16-059-06868 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Oeth Drilling Co |
| Thompson, J B 3 | 16-059-01194 | Other status | Other type | Reasor, G L |
| Thompson, J R 4 | 16-059-01199 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Reasor, G L |
| Trice, J M 3 | 16-059-02629 | Other status | Other type | Morburger, Charles |
| Wimsatt, O L 1 | 16-059-01200 | Other status | Other type | Reasor, G L |
| Dossett 3 | 16-101-02478 | Shut-in | Other type | Ryan Oil Co |
| Minton, Billy 4g | 16-101-02881 | Active | Injection | Texas Gas Transmission Corp |
| Minton, Billy 5g | 16-101-06808 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Texas Gas Transmission Corp |
| O'Nan, R E 1 | 16-101-06847 | Active | Oil | Hoffman, George |
| Oglesby, W D 2 | 16-101-06313 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Texas Gas Transmission Corp |
| Orsburn 1 | 16-101-03377 | Other status | Other type | Ashland Oil & Refining Co |
| Osburn, Georgia 1 | 16-101-06512 | Active | Gas | Beeson, Richard W |
| Powell-Minton 1 | 16-101-06425 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Slagter Producing Corp |
| Powell-Minton 4 | 16-101-00781 | Other status | Other type | Shulman Brothers |
| Barnett, E A 4 | 16-101-03213 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Myers, Fred W Jr |
| Campbell 2 | 16-101-06814 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Shulman Brothers |
| Campbell 1 | 16-101-06754 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Eakle & Holder |
| Campbell, Omer 1 | 16-101-06782 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Shulman Brothers |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 9,491 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 Henderson County, KY?
Henderson County, Kentucky has 9,491 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1,976 active, 4,897 plugged and 700 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Henderson County?
700 wells in Henderson County, Kentucky are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 6th-highest count among Kentucky counties.
What share of wells in Henderson County are plugged?
4,897 of Henderson County's 9,491 catalogued wells (52%) 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); Henderson County ranks 4th with 9,491.
How many companies operate wells in Henderson County?
1,277 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Henderson 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 Henderson County, Kentucky”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kentucky/henderson (data as of October 10, 2026).