Oil & gas wells in Barry County, MI
258 catalogued wells in Barry County, Michigan, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Barry County, Michigan has 258 catalogued oil & gas wells: 25 active (10%), 53 plugged & abandoned (21%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 66th of the 81 Michigan counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.3% of the state's 85,673 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
258
Active
25
Plugged
53
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Barry County?
10% of Barry County's wells are active, 7 percentage points below the Michigan share of 17%. 21% are plugged & abandoned, against 16% statewide and 47% nationally. 2 wells (0.8%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Barry County; Michigan as a whole has 257. The remaining 178 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Barry County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 0% and the gas share 0%. The deepest total depth published for a Barry County well is 6,618 ft, against 27,242 ft for Michigan as a whole. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Barry County compare with other Michigan counties?
Barry County has the 66th-most catalogued wells of the 81 Michigan counties with at least 25. The median Michigan county on WellCensus has 820 wells. The largest, Otsego County, has 5,579.
Who operates wells in Barry County?
112 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Barry 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 Barry County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battle Creek Gas Company Bd2 | 21-015-00153 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Battle Creek Gas Co |
| Lacey BD 2 | 21-015-00321 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Battle Creek Gas Co |
| Wolverine Improvment 1 | 21-015-00348 | Other status | Other type | Wolverine Improvement Co |
| Assyria 1 | 21-015-00349 | Other status | Other type | Conner G D and Callendar J J |
| Hughes, William 1 | 21-015-01055 | Other status | Other type | Muskegon Development Company |
| Kinne 1 | 21-015-01118 | Other status | Other type | Barry Oil And Development Corp |
| Slynn, Ella 1 | 21-015-02484 | Other status | Other type | Red Man Oil Co |
| Simmons Est. 1 | 21-015-04733 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Collin And Soper |
| Natzel, Otto 1 | 21-015-04915 | Other status | Other type | Associated Development Co |
| Drake 1 | 21-015-05360 | Other status | Other type | Schelling Eric P And Allen Harry P |
| Burns, W. N. 1 | 21-015-05488 | Other status | Other type | Three A Drilling Co |
| Boyes 1 | 21-015-05555 | Other status | Other type | Yankee Springs Developing Co |
| Sigler, Kim 1 | 21-015-05806 | Other status | Other type | Monroe James |
| Nottingham, Lee W. 1 | 21-015-05920 | Other status | Other type | Leblanc Ralph |
| Stokoe 1 | 21-015-05953 | Other status | Other type | Darke Brothers |
| Brown 1 | 21-015-05979 | Other status | Other type | American Drilling Co |
| Moxon 1 | 21-015-05990 | Other status | Other type | Thornapple Valley Development Co |
| Morgan 1 | 21-015-06191 | Other status | Other type | Bell And Marks Inc |
| Clark 1 | 21-015-06231 | Other status | Other type | Perrine Shepherd Drilling And Development Co |
| Dotzert, Jacob & Heirs 1 | 21-015-06308 | Other status | Other type | Stoddard R L |
| Sharf 1 | 21-015-06350 | Other status | Other type | Fox Kenneth W |
| Smith 1 | 21-015-06435 | Other status | Other type | Jones D J Trustee |
| Litts 1 | 21-015-06557 | Other status | Other type | Sprenger Brothers |
| Bagley 1 | 21-015-06558 | Other status | Other type | Trexler N A |
| Schroeder 1 | 21-015-06578 | Other status | Other type | Freeman Oil Co |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 258 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 Barry County, MI?
Barry County, Michigan has 258 catalogued oil & gas wells: 25 active, 53 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Barry County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Barry County, Michigan.
What share of wells in Barry County are plugged?
53 of Barry County's 258 catalogued wells (21%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 16% across Michigan.
Which Michigan county has the most oil and gas wells?
Otsego County has the most catalogued wells of any Michigan county on WellCensus (5,579); Barry County ranks 66th with 258.
How many companies operate wells in Barry County?
112 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Barry County, Michigan.
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About this data
Source: Michigan EGLE 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 Barry County, Michigan”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/michigan/barry (data as of October 10, 2026).