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Oil & gas wells in Adair County, MO

31 catalogued wells in Adair County, Missouri, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Adair County, Missouri has 31 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 30 documented orphans. It ranks 18th of the 18 Missouri counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.6% of the state's 4,892 catalogued wells.

Catalogued wells

31

Active

0

Plugged

0

Documented orphans

30

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

0% of Adair County's wells are active, close to the Missouri share of 0%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 0% statewide and 47% nationally. 30 wells (97%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 98% across Missouri and 4% nationally. The remaining 1 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Adair 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%. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.

How does Adair County compare with other Missouri counties?

Adair County has the 18th-most catalogued wells of the 18 Missouri counties with at least 25. The median Missouri county on WellCensus has 114 wells. The largest, Jackson County, has 1,711. By documented orphans it ranks 18th in Missouri.

Who operates wells in Adair County?

Missouri records currently come only from the USGS United States Documented Orphaned Well Database (2026); the state's own registry of active and plugged wells is not yet ingested, so counts cover documented orphans only.

Oil & gas wells in Adair County, MO
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
Well API 24-001-0000124-001-00001Other statusUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0000224-001-00002OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0000324-001-00003OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0000424-001-00004OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0000524-001-00005OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0000624-001-00006OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0000724-001-00007OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0000824-001-00008OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0000924-001-00009OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0001024-001-00010OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0001124-001-00011OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0001224-001-00012OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0001324-001-00013OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0001424-001-00014OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0001524-001-00015OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0001624-001-00016OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0001724-001-00017OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0001824-001-00018OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0001924-001-00019OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0002024-001-00020OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0002124-001-00021OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0002224-001-00022OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0002324-001-00023OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0002524-001-00025OrphanedUnknown—
Well API 24-001-0002624-001-00026OrphanedUnknown—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 31 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 Adair County, MO?

Adair County, Missouri has 31 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 30 documented orphans.

How many orphaned wells are in Adair County?

30 wells in Adair County, Missouri are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 18th-highest count among Missouri counties.

What share of wells in Adair County are plugged?

0 of Adair County's 31 catalogued wells (0%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 0% across Missouri.

Which Missouri county has the most oil and gas wells?

Jackson County has the most catalogued wells of any Missouri county on WellCensus (1,711); Adair County ranks 18th with 31.

Nearby in the Missouri rankings

About this data

Source: 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 Adair County, Missouri”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/missouri/adair (data as of October 10, 2026).