Oil & gas wells in Ionia County, MI
131 catalogued wells in Ionia County, Michigan, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Ionia County, Michigan has 131 catalogued oil & gas wells: 2 active (2%), 23 plugged & abandoned (18%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 74th of the 81 Michigan counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.2% of the state's 85,673 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
131
Active
2
Plugged
23
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Ionia County?
2% of Ionia County's wells are active, 15 percentage points below the Michigan share of 17%. 18% are plugged & abandoned, against 16% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Ionia County; Michigan as a whole has 257. The remaining 106 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Ionia 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 Ionia County well is 8,657 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 Ionia County compare with other Michigan counties?
Ionia County has the 74th-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 Ionia County?
75 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Ionia 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 Ionia County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roy Patrick 1 | 21-067-00063 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ionia County Road Commission |
| Moss 1 | 21-067-01849 | Other status | Other type | Strachan J Lee Trustee |
| Cutler 1 | 21-067-02619 | Other status | Other type | Wicklund J V Development Co |
| Bank Of Muir 1 | 21-067-02648 | Other status | Other type | Gordon Oil Co |
| Welch 1 | 21-067-02773 | Other status | Other type | Greer And Meals |
| Abbey, Wm. 1 | 21-067-02800 | Other status | Other type | Holliday A F |
| Kimball S H 1 | 21-067-02919 | Other status | Other type | Mall T H |
| Retersdorf, Emma 1 | 21-067-02980 | Other status | Other type | Associated Petroleum Co |
| Geiger, Charles 1 | 21-067-03135 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Lyons Frank |
| Tew, Edgar A. 1 | 21-067-03154 | Other status | Other type | Dale Terry Michigan Corp |
| Mosser, Will H. 1 | 21-067-03390 | Other status | Other type | Barton James H |
| Marshall, Elmer And Edna 1 | 21-067-03896 | Other status | Other type | Boston Oil And Gas Co |
| Marion, M. B. 1 | 21-067-04701 | Other status | Other type | Rex Oil And Gas Co |
| Keefer, Sherman W 1 | 21-067-05993 | Other status | Other type | Drury J E |
| Hooper, George A 1 | 21-067-07503 | Other status | Other type | Wagenaar Neil |
| Loomis, Fred 1 | 21-067-09826 | Other status | Other type | Freeman Oil Co |
| Miller, Nicolas 1 | 21-067-10327 | Other status | Other type | Heinig Hugh H |
| Creyton Estate 1 | 21-067-10757 | Other status | Other type | Schrauben Herman J |
| Patrick, Roy 1 | 21-067-10865 | Other status | Other type | Ionia County Road Commission |
| St Clair 1 | 21-067-10985 | Other status | Other type | Maguire C L Inc |
| Stevenson, James B & Myrtle 1 | 21-067-10999 | Other status | Other type | Farmers Crude Production Co |
| Wright, Mable V. 1 | 21-067-11009 | Other status | Other type | Maguire C L Inc |
| Sweet, Edlin D. F. 1 | 21-067-11027 | Other status | Other type | Foster Howard L |
| Nummer, Fred 1 | 21-067-11121 | Other status | Other type | Ramsey C W |
| Dalton & Stevenson Comm. 1 | 21-067-11186 | Other status | Other type | Wadsworth H L And Mcclure H M |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 131 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 Ionia County, MI?
Ionia County, Michigan has 131 catalogued oil & gas wells: 2 active, 23 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Ionia County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Ionia County, Michigan.
What share of wells in Ionia County are plugged?
23 of Ionia County's 131 catalogued wells (18%) 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); Ionia County ranks 74th with 131.
How many companies operate wells in Ionia County?
75 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Ionia 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 Ionia County, Michigan”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/michigan/ionia (data as of October 10, 2026).