Oil & gas wells in McCreary County, KY
486 catalogued wells in McCreary County, Kentucky, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
McCreary County, Kentucky has 486 catalogued oil & gas wells: 110 active (23%), 231 plugged & abandoned (48%) and 23 documented orphans. It ranks 58th of the 90 Kentucky counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.2% of the state's 201,022 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
486
Active
110
Plugged
231
Documented orphans
23
What is the status of oil and gas wells in McCreary County?
23% of McCreary County's wells are active, 4 percentage points below the Kentucky share of 27%. 48% are plugged & abandoned, against 39% statewide and 47% nationally. 23 wells (5%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 8% across Kentucky and 4% nationally. The remaining 122 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in McCreary County?
By product class, 92 of the county's wells (19%) are oil wells, 113 (23%) gas wells and 4 (0.8%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 25% and the gas share 15%. The deepest total depth published for a McCreary County well is 4,067 ft, against 16,108 ft for Kentucky as a whole. 93% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does McCreary County compare with other Kentucky counties?
McCreary County has the 58th-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 52nd in Kentucky.
Who operates wells in McCreary County?
90 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in McCreary 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 McCreary County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roberts, Joe K Heirs 2 | 16-147-00001 | Orphaned | Oil | Byrd, Nathan C |
| Stearns Coal & Lumber Co 2 | 16-147-00002 | Active | Oil | Tower Oil Co |
| Stearns Coal & Lumber Co 4 | 16-147-00003 | Active | Oil | Tower Oil Co |
| Corder, America 1 | 16-147-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Blakeley, Charles V |
| Coffey, Woodrow Et Al 5 | 16-147-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Blakeley, Charles V |
| Jackson-Dolen-Hansford-Lomianc 2 | 16-147-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Two Sons Enterprises, Inc |
| Jackson-Dolen-Hansford-Lomianc 1 | 16-147-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Two Sons Enterprises, Inc |
| Jackson-Dolen-Hansford-Lomianc 3 | 16-147-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Two Sons Enterprises, Inc |
| Coffey, Woodrow Et Al 7 | 16-147-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Blakeley, Charles V |
| Coffey, Woodrow Et Al 6 | 16-147-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Blakeley, Charles V |
| Watters, Butler Heirs 2 | 16-147-00011 | Active | Gas | Hughes Texas Petroleum Corp |
| Owens, Duane Et Al 1 | 16-147-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Tennessee Land & Exploration Co |
| Mccreary County 1a | 16-147-00013 | Active | Gas | Hughes Texas Petroleum Corp |
| Dunnagan, Foxie 1 | 16-147-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ideal Drilling Co, Inc |
| King, Elmon 8 | 16-147-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Riddle, H K |
| Campbell, D H 1 | 16-147-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Griffin, W K Jr |
| Jones, Luther 1 | 16-147-00017 | Orphaned | Oil | Hardwick, Charlie |
| Creekmore, Anna Mary 1 | 16-147-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Griffin, W K Jr |
| Morgan, Clyde 1 | 16-147-00019 | Active | Gas | Griffin, W K Jr |
| King, Elmon (Beulah Phillips) 1 | 16-147-00020 | Active | Oil | Riddle, H K |
| King, Elmon (Beulah Phillips) 2 | 16-147-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Riddle, H K |
| King, Elmon P 9 | 16-147-00022 | Active | Oil | Kingmont Oil Co, Inc |
| King, Mitchell 1 | 16-147-00023 | Orphaned | Oil | Nitzschke Oil Co |
| King, Elmon P 10 | 16-147-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Kingmont Oil Co, Inc |
| Jones, Randy L 1 | 16-147-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Drilling & Production Management |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 486 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 McCreary County, KY?
McCreary County, Kentucky has 486 catalogued oil & gas wells: 110 active, 231 plugged and 23 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in McCreary County?
23 wells in McCreary County, Kentucky are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 52nd-highest count among Kentucky counties.
What share of wells in McCreary County are plugged?
231 of McCreary County's 486 catalogued wells (48%) 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); McCreary County ranks 58th with 486.
How many companies operate wells in McCreary County?
90 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in McCreary 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 McCreary County, Kentucky”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kentucky/mccreary (data as of October 10, 2026).