Oil & gas wells in Beaverhead County, MT
30 catalogued wells in Beaverhead County, Montana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Beaverhead County, Montana has 30 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 29 plugged & abandoned (97%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 41st of the 41 Montana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 42,011 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
30
Active
0
Plugged
29
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Beaverhead County?
0% of Beaverhead County's wells are active, 23 percentage points below the Montana share of 23%. 97% are plugged & abandoned, against 60% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Beaverhead County; Montana as a whole has 272. The remaining 1 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Beaverhead 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 30% and the gas share 24%. The deepest total depth published for a Beaverhead County well is 16,048 ft, against 31,810 ft for Montana as a whole. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Beaverhead County compare with other Montana counties?
Beaverhead County has the 41st-most catalogued wells of the 41 Montana counties with at least 25. The median Montana county on WellCensus has 457 wells. The largest, Toole County, has 7,830.
Who operates wells in Beaverhead County?
16 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Beaverhead 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 Beaverhead County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benj. C. Crowley 1 | 25-001-05000 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hagenbarth |
| Well 2 | 25-001-05001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Beaverhead Alberta Oil Co. |
| Well 3 | 25-001-05002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Beaverhead Alberta Oil Co. |
| Well 1 | 25-001-05003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Beaverhead Alberta Oil Co. |
| Well 1 | 25-001-05004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Big Dome Oil Co. |
| Well 1 | 25-001-05005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Geo. Metlan Etal |
| Well 1 | 25-001-05006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Horse Prairie Oil Co. |
| Unit 34X-13 | 25-001-05007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Shell Oil Company |
| Well 2 | 25-001-05008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Muddy Creek Oil Co. |
| Well 1 | 25-001-05009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Muddy Creek Oil Co. |
| Lima 2-33 | 25-001-05010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Farmers Union Central Exchange, Inc. |
| Metzel-Federal 1 | 25-001-21001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Texas Petroleum Corporation |
| Lima 9-31 | 25-001-21002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Farmers Union Central Exchange, Inc. |
| May-Federal 9-1 | 25-001-21003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | American Quasar Petroleum Co. Of New Mexico |
| Peet Creek Fed. 29-1 | 25-001-21004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | American Quasar Petroleum Co. Of New Mexico |
| Rebish 29-1 | 25-001-21005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | American Quasar Petroleum Co. Of New Mexico |
| M. Hagenbarth et al 1 | 25-001-21006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | May Petroleum, Inc. |
| Hansen 1-27 | 25-001-21007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Luff Exploration Company |
| J. Hirschy Livestock 1 | 25-001-21008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amoco Production Company |
| Hagenbarth 27-22 | 25-001-21009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | American Quasar Petroleum Co. Of New Mexico |
| J. Hirschy Livestock 2 | 25-001-21010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amoco Production Company |
| Snowline Grazing Fed. 1 | 25-001-21011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amoco Production Company |
| McNight Canyon 1 | 25-001-21012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amoco Production Company |
| Cornell Camp 1-20 | 25-001-21014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Marathon Oil Company |
| Martinell 24-4 | 25-001-21016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Phillips Petroleum Company |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 30 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 Beaverhead County, MT?
Beaverhead County, Montana has 30 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 29 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Beaverhead County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Beaverhead County, Montana.
What share of wells in Beaverhead County are plugged?
29 of Beaverhead County's 30 catalogued wells (97%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 60% across Montana.
Which Montana county has the most oil and gas wells?
Toole County has the most catalogued wells of any Montana county on WellCensus (7,830); Beaverhead County ranks 41st with 30.
How many companies operate wells in Beaverhead County?
16 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Beaverhead County, Montana.
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About this data
Source: Montana Board of Oil & Gas Conservation 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 Beaverhead County, Montana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/montana/beaverhead (data as of October 10, 2026).