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Oil & gas wells in Crawford County, MI

1,150 catalogued wells in Crawford County, Michigan, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Crawford County, Michigan has 1,150 catalogued oil & gas wells: 365 active (32%), 128 plugged & abandoned (11%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 30th of the 81 Michigan counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 1% of the state's 85,673 catalogued wells.

Catalogued wells

1,150

Active

365

Plugged

128

Documented orphans

0

What is the status of oil and gas wells in Crawford County?

32% of Crawford County's wells are active, 15 percentage points above the Michigan share of 17%. 11% are plugged & abandoned, against 16% statewide and 47% nationally. 38 wells (3%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Crawford County; Michigan as a whole has 257. The remaining 619 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Crawford 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 Crawford County well is 18,053 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 Crawford County compare with other Michigan counties?

Crawford County has the 30th-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 Crawford County?

79 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Crawford 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.

Oil & gas wells in Crawford County, MI
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
Grayling Hunting & Fishing Club - Grayling Core Pr 721-039-61297Other statusOther typeGulf Refining Co And Epd
State Beaver Creek K 121-039-00046Plugged & abandonedOther typeUnion Oil Co Of California
A. Martindale 121-039-00077Other statusOther typeCrawford County Road Commission
Hanson Lumbering Company 121-039-00456Plugged & abandonedOther typeGrayling Development Co
Huston, Jennie & Lincoln, A. B. 121-039-03179Other statusOther typeCaldwell T F
Lundgren, Einer 121-039-04278Other statusOther typeDome Oil Development Co
Floeter 121-039-05455Other statusOther typeWeber Oil Co
Lintz, Thelma 121-039-09205Other statusOther typeSchrot Leo S
Lincoln, Albert B 121-039-09547Other statusOther typeSchrot Leo S
Corning 121-039-10018Other statusOther typeFreeman Oil Co
Timberland, Inc. 121-039-11774Other statusOther typeHanners George G
Starr, Charles W. 121-039-11807Other statusOther typeMcclanahan Oil Co
State Beaver Creek 1-A21-039-12988ActiveOther typeWhite Pine Production LLC
Priess, J. H. A-121-039-13045ActiveOther typeWhite Pine Production LLC
State Beaver Creek M-121-039-13484ActiveOther typeWhite Pine Production LLC
State Beaver Creek 1-B21-039-13487Plugged & abandonedOther typeUnion Oil Co Of California
State Beaver Creek C-121-039-13762Plugged & abandonedOther typeWhite Pine Production LLC
State Beaver Creek D121-039-13789Other statusOther typeUnion Oil Co Of California
Priess, J. H. B-121-039-13848ActiveOther typeWhite Pine Production LLC
State Beaver Creek M-221-039-13872ActiveOther typeWhite Pine Production LLC
Goetsch, R. C. A-121-039-13900ActiveOther typeWhite Pine Production LLC
State Beaver Creek M-321-039-13901ActiveOther typeWhite Pine Production LLC
Joseph, H H 121-039-13932Shut-inOther typeWhite Pine Production LLC
State Beaver Creek E-121-039-13983Plugged & abandonedOther typeWhite Pine Production LLC
Joseph, H H 221-039-14057ActiveOther typeWhite Pine Production LLC

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 1,150 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 Crawford County, MI?

Crawford County, Michigan has 1,150 catalogued oil & gas wells: 365 active, 128 plugged and 0 documented orphans.

How many orphaned wells are in Crawford County?

No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Crawford County, Michigan.

What share of wells in Crawford County are plugged?

128 of Crawford County's 1,150 catalogued wells (11%) 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); Crawford County ranks 30th with 1,150.

How many companies operate wells in Crawford County?

79 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Crawford 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 Crawford County, Michigan”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/michigan/crawford (data as of October 10, 2026).