Oil & gas wells in Bay County, MI
2,511 catalogued wells in Bay County, Michigan, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Bay County, Michigan has 2,511 catalogued oil & gas wells: 381 active (15%), 197 plugged & abandoned (8%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 7th of the 81 Michigan counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 3% of the state's 85,673 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
2,511
Active
381
Plugged
197
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Bay County?
15% of Bay County's wells are active, 2 percentage points below the Michigan share of 17%. 8% are plugged & abandoned, against 16% statewide and 47% nationally. 34 wells (1%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 1 wells (0.0%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.3% across Michigan and 4% nationally. The remaining 1,898 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Bay 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 Bay County well is 14,710 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 Bay County compare with other Michigan counties?
Bay County has the 7th-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. By documented orphans it ranks 21st in Michigan.
Who operates wells in Bay County?
260 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Bay 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 Bay County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Dow Chemical Company 6-D | 21-017-00054 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dow Chemical Co |
| Bedell 4-W | 21-017-00056 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Muskegon Development Company |
| The Dow Chemical Company 11-D | 21-017-00061 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dow Chemical Co |
| The Dow Chemical Company 13-D | 21-017-00062 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Busk Augie And Grimes Carl E |
| The Dow Chemical Company 14-D | 21-017-00063 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dow Chemical Co |
| Bedell 3 | 21-017-00084 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Muskegon Development Company |
| Monroe 35 | 21-017-00086 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dow Chemical Co |
| Bay Refining Company 1 | 21-017-00093 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Bay Refining |
| Bedell 2-W | 21-017-00101 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Muskegon Development Company |
| Bedell 3-W | 21-017-00103 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Muskegon Development Company |
| Fee 2 | 21-017-00125 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Bay Refining |
| Dow Chemical 36 | 21-017-00268 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dow Chemical Co |
| Woodside Brine Well 1 | 21-017-00320 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Unknown |
| Pcdw 1 | 21-017-00392 | Active | Other type | U S Ecology Michigan Inc |
| Forster, Peter 1 | 21-017-00651 | Other status | Other type | Smith C A |
| Lambert-Cloverleaf 1 | 21-017-01016 | Orphaned | Other type | Eureka Oil Corp |
| Clements Et Al 1 | 21-017-01021 | Other status | Other type | Pinconning Oil Co |
| Lewis 1 | 21-017-01126 | Other status | Other type | Reinhart Dr Miles E |
| Wazbinski, Martin 1 | 21-017-02054 | Other status | Other type | Weber Alvin H |
| Koczara 1 | 21-017-02107 | Other status | Other type | Blunt Ward J |
| Stepanski Et Ux 1 | 21-017-02210 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Weber Oil Co |
| Suszko 1 | 21-017-02670 | Other status | Other type | Fordyce M C |
| Dahlke 1 | 21-017-02749 | Other status | Other type | Mcclanahan Oil Co |
| Kraus, Charles W. 1 | 21-017-03123 | Other status | Other type | Caldwell T F |
| Glander 1 | 21-017-03237 | Other status | Other type | Mcevoy Henry L |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 2,511 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 Bay County, MI?
Bay County, Michigan has 2,511 catalogued oil & gas wells: 381 active, 197 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Bay County?
1 wells in Bay County, Michigan are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 21st-highest count among Michigan counties.
What share of wells in Bay County are plugged?
197 of Bay County's 2,511 catalogued wells (8%) 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); Bay County ranks 7th with 2,511.
How many companies operate wells in Bay County?
260 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Bay 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 Bay County, Michigan”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/michigan/bay (data as of October 10, 2026).