Oil & gas wells in Owen County, KY
47 catalogued wells in Owen County, Kentucky, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Owen County, Kentucky has 47 catalogued oil & gas wells: 2 active (4%), 36 plugged & abandoned (77%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 84th of the 90 Kentucky counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.0% of the state's 201,022 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
47
Active
2
Plugged
36
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Owen County?
4% of Owen County's wells are active, 22 percentage points below the Kentucky share of 27%. 77% are plugged & abandoned, against 39% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (2%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 8% across Kentucky and 4% nationally. The remaining 8 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Owen County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 2 (4%) 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 Owen County well is 2,900 ft, against 16,108 ft for Kentucky as a whole. 77% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Owen County compare with other Kentucky counties?
Owen County has the 84th-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 84th in Kentucky.
Who operates wells in Owen County?
25 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Owen County. 100% 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 Owen County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clement, William 1 | 16-187-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ford, F M |
| Butcher, Charlie W 1 | 16-187-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Butcher, Charlie |
| Cobb, James L 1 | 16-187-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Kinoshita, Gilbert K |
| Liberty National Bank/Young,paul 1 | 16-187-00004 | Orphaned | Other type | Story, William |
| Murphy, Bob & Jean G 1 | 16-187-00005 | Other status | Other type | Story, William |
| Rawlins, L T 1 | 16-187-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Shaw, T G |
| Darlington, James 1 | 16-187-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Eggemeyer, Ronald D |
| Ayers, A J 1 | 16-187-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ford, F M |
| Bond, Mary Et Al 1 | 16-187-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Benz Oil Corp |
| Cook, Bobby 1 | 16-187-00010 | Other status | Other type | Benz Oil Corp |
| Cook, Bobby 2 | 16-187-00011 | Other status | Other type | Benz Oil Corp |
| Cook, Dan 0-48 | 16-187-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Light Heat & Power Co |
| Forbes, T B & Grace B 1 | 16-187-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Light Heat & Power Co |
| Forbes, T B & Grace B 1 | 16-187-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Davis, Oakes & Clark |
| Hunter, Hillary 1 | 16-187-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Shaw, T G |
| New, Earl 1 | 16-187-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Shaw, T G |
| O'Banion, Vance 1 | 16-187-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ford, F M |
| Slaughter, Franklin 19 | 16-187-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Light Heat & Power Co |
| Stamper, W B & Martha C 1 | 16-187-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ford, F M |
| True, George 1 | 16-187-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Beaver Dam Coal Co |
| Wright, Hazel 1 | 16-187-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Shaw, T G |
| Reister, C W 1 | KGS record 108518 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Thomas, J G |
| Greenwood Farms 1 | KGS record 108522 | Other status | Other type | Riddle, Wilbur |
| Johnson, Willis Henry 1 | KGS record 108523 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unknown |
| Clark, Ennis 1 | KGS record 16045 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ennison |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 47 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 Owen County, KY?
Owen County, Kentucky has 47 catalogued oil & gas wells: 2 active, 36 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Owen County?
1 wells in Owen County, Kentucky are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 84th-highest count among Kentucky counties.
What share of wells in Owen County are plugged?
36 of Owen County's 47 catalogued wells (77%) 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); Owen County ranks 84th with 47.
How many companies operate wells in Owen County?
25 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Owen County, Kentucky.
Nearby in the Kentucky rankings
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 Owen County, Kentucky”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/kentucky/owen (data as of October 10, 2026).