Oil & gas wells in Wheatland County, MT
58 catalogued wells in Wheatland County, Montana, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Wheatland County, Montana has 58 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1 active (2%), 47 plugged & abandoned (81%) and 2 documented orphans. It ranks 36th of the 41 Montana counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 42,011 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
58
Active
1
Plugged
47
Documented orphans
2
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Wheatland County?
2% of Wheatland County's wells are active, 22 percentage points below the Montana share of 23%. 81% are plugged & abandoned, against 60% statewide and 48% nationally. 2 wells (3%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.6% across Montana and 4% nationally. The remaining 8 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Wheatland County?
By product class, 1 of the county's wells (2%) are oil wells, 6 (10%) 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 Wheatland County well is 9,163 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 Wheatland County compare with other Montana counties?
Wheatland County has the 36th-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. By documented orphans it ranks 24th in Montana.
Who operates wells in Wheatland County?
33 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Wheatland 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 Wheatland County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooney 31-13 | 25-107-05000 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | American Climax-Barker |
| Cooney 1 | 25-107-05001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | OXY USA Inc. |
| Gaarder 1 | 25-107-05002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hadley, Herbert D. |
| State 43-22 | 25-107-05003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Seaboard Oil |
| Glennie 1 | 25-107-05004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Barker, Lawrence |
| Glennie 2 | 25-107-05005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Barker, Lawrence |
| Mary Barker 1 | 25-107-05006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Texota Oil Company |
| Shawmut 1 | 25-107-05007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Bell Mining |
| H K Griffith 1 | 25-107-05008 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Texaco Exploration and Production Inc. |
| Np-H /Nct-1/ 1 | 25-107-05009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Texaco Exploration and Production Inc. |
| Nprr 1 | 25-107-05010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Tarrant R. C. |
| Well #1 | 25-107-05011 | Other status | Other type | Arstadt Oil |
| State 1 | 25-107-05012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Barker, Lawrence |
| J E Lunney 1 | 25-107-05014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Daugaard & Whitmore |
| Hunter 2 | 25-107-05015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Norwegian-American Oil Co. |
| Ira Kruger 1 | 25-107-05017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | West Dome Syndicate |
| Big Elk 1 | 25-107-05018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Churchwell, E.H., Etal |
| State 1-C | 25-107-05019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pan American Petroleum |
| State 1 | 25-107-05020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | California Company, The |
| Becker 1 | 25-107-05021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | California Company, The |
| Henry 1 | 25-107-05022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Yates Etal |
| 1 | 25-107-05023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mid-Northern Oil Co. |
| Erickson 1 | 25-107-05024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mon-O-Co Oil Corp |
| Young 1 | 25-107-05025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mon-O-Co Oil Corp |
| Russell 1 | 25-107-05026 | Other status | Other type | Amerada Hess Corporation |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 58 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 Wheatland County, MT?
Wheatland County, Montana has 58 catalogued oil & gas wells: 1 active, 47 plugged and 2 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Wheatland County?
2 wells in Wheatland County, Montana are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 24th-highest count among Montana counties.
What share of wells in Wheatland County are plugged?
47 of Wheatland County's 58 catalogued wells (81%) 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); Wheatland County ranks 36th with 58.
How many companies operate wells in Wheatland County?
33 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Wheatland 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 28, 2026 — WellCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: WellCensus, “Oil & gas wells in Wheatland County, Montana”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/montana/wheatland (data as of October 28, 2026).