Oil & gas wells in Ingham County, MI
524 catalogued wells in Ingham County, Michigan, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Ingham County, Michigan has 524 catalogued oil & gas wells: 56 active (11%), 203 plugged & abandoned (39%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 47th of the 81 Michigan counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.6% of the state's 85,673 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
524
Active
56
Plugged
203
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Ingham County?
11% of Ingham County's wells are active, 6 percentage points below the Michigan share of 17%. 39% are plugged & abandoned, against 16% statewide and 47% nationally. 3 wells (0.6%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 1 wells (0.2%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.3% across Michigan and 4% nationally. The remaining 261 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Ingham 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 Ingham County well is 7,866 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 Ingham County compare with other Michigan counties?
Ingham County has the 47th-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 27th in Michigan.
Who operates wells in Ingham County?
134 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Ingham 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 Ingham County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Potter 1 | 21-065-00792 | Other status | Other type | Hilmur Oil Co |
| Doolittle 1 | 21-065-00940 | Other status | Other type | Hilmur Oil Co |
| Smith, B. B. 1 | 21-065-03352 | Other status | Other type | Meridan Syndicate |
| Burgess, F. 1 | 21-065-03466 | Other status | Other type | Petroleum Exploration Co |
| Osullivan 1 | 21-065-04837 | Other status | Other type | Darke Brothers |
| Royston Farm 1 | 21-065-04918 | Other status | Other type | Darke Brothers |
| Schubel, A. A. 1 | 21-065-07857 | Other status | Other type | Kalavan Drillers Inc |
| Kendall, R. T. 1 | 21-065-08132 | Other status | Other type | Mcdaniel Tom |
| Rogers, L 1 | 21-065-09477 | Other status | Other type | Fisher Mccall Oil And Gas Inc |
| Kirkpatrick, William 1 | 21-065-09987 | Other status | Other type | Voorhees Drilling Co |
| Glaser, Joseph G. 1 | 21-065-10011 | Other status | Other type | Colvin And Associates Electric Steel Co |
| Clark, M. B. 1 | 21-065-20566 | Other status | Other type | Three Lakes Oil And Gas |
| Basore, Dave 1 | 21-065-22607 | Other status | Other type | Ketchum Ralph F |
| Whipple, Nelson 1 | 21-065-22676 | Other status | Other type | Hilliard B G |
| Mierndorf, Freeman & Fern 1 | 21-065-23271 | Other status | Other type | Hutchinson Melvin J |
| Wild, Frank Et Al 1 | 21-065-24470 | Other status | Other type | Ambassador Oil Corp |
| Harkness, F W 1 | 21-065-24518 | Other status | Other type | Union Oil Co Of California |
| Jorgensen, Jerry Et Al 1 | 21-065-27910 | Other status | Other type | Exxonmobil Oil Corp |
| Bearse, Kenneth Orman, & Hill, Rexford G 1 | 21-065-28145 | Other status | Other type | Exxonmobil Oil Corp |
| Brown, Ellsworth 1 | 21-065-28173 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Omimex Energy Inc |
| Grosshans, Russell M & Eva Et Al 1 | 21-065-28266 | Other status | Other type | Exxonmobil Oil Corp |
| Imlay, Alexander 1 | 21-065-28277 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Exxonmobil Oil Corp |
| Hornberger, Harry J State Et Al 1 | 21-065-28299 | Other status | Other type | Cowen Michael T |
| Laxton, John C 1 | 21-065-28304 | Other status | Other type | Exxonmobil Oil Corp |
| Byrum, Myrtle Et Al 2 | 21-065-28344 | Other status | Other type | Trolz Glynn Exploration And Drilling Inc |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 524 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 Ingham County, MI?
Ingham County, Michigan has 524 catalogued oil & gas wells: 56 active, 203 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Ingham County?
1 wells in Ingham County, Michigan are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 27th-highest count among Michigan counties.
What share of wells in Ingham County are plugged?
203 of Ingham County's 524 catalogued wells (39%) 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); Ingham County ranks 47th with 524.
How many companies operate wells in Ingham County?
134 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Ingham 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 Ingham County, Michigan”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/michigan/ingham (data as of October 10, 2026).