Oil & gas wells in Box Butte County, NE
86 catalogued wells in Box Butte County, Nebraska, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Box Butte County, Nebraska has 86 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 60 plugged & abandoned (70%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 21st of the 36 Nebraska counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.4% of the state's 22,021 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
86
Active
0
Plugged
60
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Box Butte County?
0% of Box Butte County's wells are active, 10 percentage points below the Nebraska share of 10%. 70% are plugged & abandoned, against 77% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Box Butte County; Nebraska as a whole has 32. The remaining 26 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Box Butte County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 1 (1%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 27% and the gas share 2%. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Box Butte County compare with other Nebraska counties?
Box Butte County has the 21st-most catalogued wells of the 36 Nebraska counties with at least 25. The median Nebraska county on WellCensus has 150 wells. The largest, Kimball County, has 4,891.
Who operates wells in Box Butte County?
Nebraska records come from the regulator's well-location index — API number, coordinates and status — without operator names or lifecycle dates (NOGCC's free export is API + location + status symbol; the full database is a paid product).
Wells in Box Butte County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acker 34-1 | 26-013-05000 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Nerud Et Ux 1 | 26-013-05003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Nerud Et Ux 1-19 | 26-013-05004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Morehead 1 | 26-013-05005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lore 1 | 26-013-05007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Trenkel 1 | 26-013-05008 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Mann, Everett 1 | 26-013-05009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cook 1 | 26-013-05010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Ross 1 | 26-013-05011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Lore 1 | 26-013-05012 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Frederick 1 | 26-013-05014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Henderson 1 | 26-013-05015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Brown-Sturgeon 1 | 26-013-05016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Sturgeon 1 | 26-013-05017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Henderson "A" 1 | 26-013-05018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cook, J B 1 | 26-013-05019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| State 1 | 26-013-05021 | Other status | Other type | — |
| State 1 | 26-013-05022 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Cook, J B 1 | 26-013-05023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cook 1 | 26-013-05024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Henderson 1 | 26-013-05025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Cook, J B 1 | 26-013-05026 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Cook, J B 2 | 26-013-05027 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Hollister 1 | 26-013-05028 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
| Haines 1 | 26-013-05029 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 86 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 Box Butte County, NE?
Box Butte County, Nebraska has 86 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 60 plugged and 0 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Box Butte County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Box Butte County, Nebraska.
What share of wells in Box Butte County are plugged?
60 of Box Butte County's 86 catalogued wells (70%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 77% across Nebraska.
Which Nebraska county has the most oil and gas wells?
Kimball County has the most catalogued wells of any Nebraska county on WellCensus (4,891); Box Butte County ranks 21st with 86.
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About this data
Source: Nebraska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission 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 Box Butte County, Nebraska”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/nebraska/box-butte (data as of October 10, 2026).