Oil & gas wells in Roscommon County, MI
546 catalogued wells in Roscommon County, Michigan, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Roscommon County, Michigan has 546 catalogued oil & gas wells: 77 active (14%), 172 plugged & abandoned (32%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 46th of the 81 Michigan counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.6% of the state's 85,673 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
546
Active
77
Plugged
172
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Roscommon County?
14% of Roscommon County's wells are active, 3 percentage points below the Michigan share of 17%. 32% are plugged & abandoned, against 16% statewide and 47% nationally. 26 wells (5%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Roscommon County; Michigan as a whole has 257. The remaining 271 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Roscommon 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 Roscommon County well is 16,272 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 Roscommon County compare with other Michigan counties?
Roscommon County has the 46th-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 Roscommon County?
86 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Roscommon 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 Roscommon County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| J.C. Kidder 1 | 21-137-61267 | Other status | Other type | Pure Oil Co |
| Test Well 2 | 21-143-00121 | Other status | Other type | Grayling Development Co |
| State Higgins 1 | 21-143-00458 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Grayling Development Co |
| Roscommon Test 1 | 21-143-00464 | Other status | Other type | Walker and Bell |
| State Of Michigan 11 | 21-143-00968 | Other status | Other type | Grayling Development Co |
| State Of Michigan 12 | 21-143-00973 | Other status | Other type | Grayling Development Co |
| State Of Michigan 13 | 21-143-01003 | Other status | Other type | Grayling Development Co |
| State Of Michigan 14 | 21-143-01053 | Other status | Other type | Grayling Development Co |
| Vaughn 1 | 21-143-02249 | Other status | Other type | Black Diamond Petroleum Syndicate |
| Egglestone 1 | 21-143-02546 | Other status | Other type | Jones And Durham |
| Hilborn 1 | 21-143-02707 | Other status | Other type | Molloy And Regan And Black And Jackson Et Al |
| Childers, L. G. 1 | 21-143-03594 | Other status | Other type | Fletcher And Leman |
| Hartwick Trust 2 | 21-143-03616 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | North Michigan Land And Oil Corp |
| Barnett Heirs 1 | 21-143-04270 | Other status | Other type | Seger And Swan And Perkins |
| Eggleston Ranch 1 | 21-143-04595 | Other status | Other type | Smith Maynard L |
| St Helen 1 | 21-143-04603 | Other status | Other type | Franklin Petroleum Development Co |
| Salling Hanson Co, Trustees 1 | 21-143-05174 | Other status | Other type | Oryx Energy Co |
| Hawthorn And Miller Et Al 2 | 21-143-05221 | Other status | Other type | Kirkham Virgil R D |
| St Helen Oil Co 2 | 21-143-05222 | Other status | Other type | Kirkham Virgil R D |
| Gage Estate 1 | 21-143-05941 | Other status | Other type | Tamblyn R B And Macgillivray M W |
| Neer 1 | 21-143-06646 | Other status | Other type | Kirkham Virgil R D |
| Russell Lake Club 1 | 21-143-06800 | Other status | Other type | Maguire C L Inc |
| State B-1 | 21-143-07230 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Stephens Harry And Tuck Gordon |
| Hogan, Ida Hollister Porter, Tr 1 | 21-143-07562 | Other status | Other type | Oryx Energy Co |
| State 1 | 21-143-07864 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gulf Refining Co And Epd |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 546 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 Roscommon County, MI?
Roscommon County, Michigan has 546 catalogued oil & gas wells: 77 active, 172 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Roscommon County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Roscommon County, Michigan.
What share of wells in Roscommon County are plugged?
172 of Roscommon County's 546 catalogued wells (32%) 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); Roscommon County ranks 46th with 546.
How many companies operate wells in Roscommon County?
86 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Roscommon 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 Roscommon County, Michigan”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/michigan/roscommon (data as of October 10, 2026).