Oil & gas wells in Ohio County, KY
11,631 catalogued wells in Ohio County, Kentucky, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Ohio County, Kentucky has 11,631 catalogued oil & gas wells: 2,214 active (19%), 4,213 plugged & abandoned (36%) and 924 documented orphans. It ranks 1st of the 90 Kentucky counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 6% of the state's 201,022 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
11,631
Active
2,214
Plugged
4,213
Documented orphans
924
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Ohio County?
19% of Ohio County's wells are active, 8 percentage points below the Kentucky share of 27%. 36% are plugged & abandoned, against 39% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (0.0%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 924 wells (8%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 8% across Kentucky and 4% nationally. The remaining 4,279 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Ohio County?
By product class, 2,779 of the county's wells (24%) are oil wells, 184 (2%) gas wells and 603 (5%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 25% and the gas share 15%. The deepest total depth published for a Ohio County well is 6,700 ft, against 16,108 ft for Kentucky as a whole. 59% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Ohio County compare with other Kentucky counties?
Ohio County has the most catalogued wells of the 90 Kentucky counties with at least 25. The median Kentucky county on WellCensus has 941 wells. By documented orphans it ranks 2nd in Kentucky.
Who operates wells in Ohio County?
2,283 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Ohio 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 Ohio County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gardner, Casper S 1 | 16-183-03154 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Reliance Oil Corp |
| Gilmore, Walter 2 | 16-059-01156 | Other status | Other type | Johnson, Morris H |
| Midkiff, Gene 1 | 16-059-02032 | Active | Oil | Rhodes, F H |
| Gilmore, W 1 | 16-183-03155 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Turner, J D |
| Gilmore, Walter 2 | 16-059-04217 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Polhamus, I A |
| Atherton, H K 9 | 16-059-01451 | Active | Oil | Lebow, Simon |
| Mccormick, H J 1 | 16-059-07105 | Other status | Other type | Lebow, Simon |
| Wilson, R D 3 | 16-059-06934 | Other status | Other type | Lebow, Simon |
| Yeiser, E R 1 | 16-059-06451 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hoffman, George A |
| Tyler, H S 1 | 16-183-04449 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Marhill Oil & Gas Co |
| Hardesty, Virgil 2 | 16-183-03156 | Other status | Other type | Felmont Oil Corp |
| Mayfield, Aubrey 1 | 16-183-04444 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Warren Drilling Co, Inc |
| Ashley Heirs 4 | 16-183-05200 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Lebow, Simon |
| Miller, J T 4 | 16-183-01925 | Active | Oil | Marsh, Dan |
| Corely, Homer 1 | 16-059-00483 | Active | Oil | Hazelip & Hankins Drilling Co |
| Wimsatt, Bill 1 | 16-059-06447 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Greer, B J |
| Wimsatt, Bob 1 | 16-059-06448 | Other status | Other type | Greer, B J |
| Wimsatt, M 1 | 16-059-06449 | Other status | Other type | Greer, B J |
| Day, Jerome 1 | 16-059-01907 | Active | Oil | Picou, Kenneth |
| Yeiser, M D 9 | 16-059-02317 | Other status | Other type | Stinson & Moser |
| Howard, C P 3 | 16-059-00932 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Marsh, Dan & K Westerfield |
| Edge, Leslie 1-A | 16-183-03153 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Yunker, Milton S |
| Wimsatt, W A 1 | 16-059-06446 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Evans, M P |
| Ward, Maggie 1 | 16-059-01245 | Active | Oil | Bardill, S W |
| Ford, Earnest 22-W | 16-183-00784 | Orphaned | Injection | Helm, Carl |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 11,631 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 Ohio County, KY?
Ohio County, Kentucky has 11,631 catalogued oil & gas wells: 2,214 active, 4,213 plugged and 924 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Ohio County?
924 wells in Ohio County, Kentucky are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 2nd-highest count among Kentucky counties.
What share of wells in Ohio County are plugged?
4,213 of Ohio County's 11,631 catalogued wells (36%) 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, with 11,631.
How many companies operate wells in Ohio County?
2,283 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Ohio 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 Ohio County, Kentucky”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kentucky/ohio (data as of October 10, 2026).