Oil & gas wells in Jackson County, KY
396 catalogued wells in Jackson County, Kentucky, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Jackson County, Kentucky has 396 catalogued oil & gas wells: 88 active (22%), 118 plugged & abandoned (30%) and 17 documented orphans. It ranks 62nd of the 90 Kentucky counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.2% of the state's 201,022 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
396
Active
88
Plugged
118
Documented orphans
17
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Jackson County?
22% of Jackson County's wells are active, 4 percentage points below the Kentucky share of 27%. 30% are plugged & abandoned, against 39% statewide and 47% nationally. 17 wells (4%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 8% across Kentucky and 4% nationally. The remaining 173 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Jackson County?
By product class, 35 of the county's wells (9%) are oil wells, 80 (20%) 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 Jackson County well is 10,207 ft, against 16,108 ft for Kentucky as a whole. 54% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Jackson County compare with other Kentucky counties?
Jackson County has the 62nd-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 58th in Kentucky.
Who operates wells in Jackson County?
100 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Jackson 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 Jackson County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moore & Congleton 1 | 16-109-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Brown Drilling Co, Inc |
| Bingham, George 1b | 16-109-00003 | Orphaned | Other type | Ross, Lonnie |
| Bingham, Cordell 1 | 16-109-00004 | Orphaned | Other type | Chaseland Oil Corp |
| Jones, Paul 3 | 16-109-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Welch Brothers Oil & Gas, Inc |
| Welch, Fred & Eudell 1 | 16-109-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Drew Drilling, Inc |
| Smith & Tillery 1 | 16-109-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Drew Drilling, Inc |
| U S Forest Service 1 | 16-109-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Drew Drilling, Inc |
| U S Forest Service 2 | 16-109-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Drew Drilling, Inc |
| Chappell, Charlie 1 | 16-109-00011 | Active | Gas | Drew Drilling, Inc |
| Moore, Carson 1 | 16-109-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Testco Drilling, Inc |
| Mcgee, Moss 1 | 16-109-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Testco Drilling, Inc |
| U S Forest Service 8 | 16-109-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Drew Drilling, Inc |
| Carpenter Construction Co 1 | 16-109-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Carpenter Construction Co |
| Isaac Heirs 3 | 16-109-00016 | Orphaned | Other type | Cate, Carel |
| Isaac Heirs 6 | 16-109-00017 | Orphaned | Oil | Cate, Carel |
| Isaac Heirs 11 | 16-109-00018 | Orphaned | Oil | Cate, Carel |
| Smith, Ollie | 16-109-00020 | Other status | Other type | Geo Ros & Henry Day |
| Cox, Isaac 1 | 16-109-00021 | Orphaned | Other type | Loretta Oil Co |
| Sheppard-Hays Unit 2 | 16-109-00022 | Active | Gas | Sheppard, A L |
| Sparks, Walter 4 | 16-109-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Sisk, Governor |
| Turner, Alton 1 | 16-109-00024 | Active | Gas | Turner |
| Mcqueen, John 1 | 16-109-00028 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Markham, Ted |
| Moore, Ethel 1 | 16-109-00029 | Other status | Other type | Larsen Energy, Inc |
| Bond, Martha 1 | 16-109-00048 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hardwick, H Et Al |
| Banks, Danny Unit 1 | 16-109-00049 | Other status | Gas | Industrial Resource Corp |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 396 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 Jackson County, KY?
Jackson County, Kentucky has 396 catalogued oil & gas wells: 88 active, 118 plugged and 17 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Jackson County?
17 wells in Jackson County, Kentucky are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 58th-highest count among Kentucky counties.
What share of wells in Jackson County are plugged?
118 of Jackson County's 396 catalogued wells (30%) 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); Jackson County ranks 62nd with 396.
How many companies operate wells in Jackson County?
100 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Jackson 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 Jackson County, Kentucky”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kentucky/jackson (data as of October 10, 2026).