Oil & gas wells in Wayne County, NY
36 catalogued wells in Wayne County, New York, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Wayne County, New York has 36 catalogued oil & gas wells: 3 active (8%), 13 plugged & abandoned (36%) and 12 documented orphans. It ranks 27th of the 29 New York counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.1% of the state's 46,514 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
36
Active
3
Plugged
13
Documented orphans
12
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Wayne County?
8% of Wayne County's wells are active, 16 percentage points below the New York share of 25%. 36% are plugged & abandoned, against 44% statewide and 47% nationally. 12 wells (33%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 16% across New York and 4% nationally. The remaining 8 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Wayne County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 13 (36%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 39% and the gas share 23%. The deepest total depth published for a Wayne County well is 5,153 ft, against 15,921 ft for New York as a whole. 97% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Wayne County compare with other New York counties?
Wayne County has the 27th-most catalogued wells of the 29 New York counties with at least 25. The median New York county on WellCensus has 212 wells. The largest, Allegany County, has 16,110. By documented orphans it ranks 21st in New York.
Who operates wells in Wayne County?
12 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Wayne County. 89% 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 Wayne County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alloway 1 | 31-117-00830 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Clyde Well | 31-117-00931 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Wolcott Well | 31-117-01009 | Orphaned | Gas | — |
| Well API 31-117-01049 | 31-117-01049 | Other status | Other type | — |
| Ely C D | 31-117-01869 | Orphaned | Gas | Boyce et al |
| Welch John 2 | 31-117-01870 | Orphaned | Gas | Hadley & Rogers |
| Arnold Ethel | 31-117-01871 | Orphaned | Gas | Boyce et al |
| Harper R 1 | 31-117-01872 | Orphaned | Other type | Boyce et al |
| Harper R 2 | 31-117-01873 | Orphaned | Other type | Boyce et al |
| Welch J O 1 | 31-117-01874 | Orphaned | Gas | Hadley & Rogers |
| Noble Charles | 31-117-01875 | Orphaned | Other type | Hadley & Rogers |
| Harper R 3 | 31-117-02287 | Orphaned | Gas | Boyce et al |
| Smith Frank 1 | 31-117-04754 | Orphaned | Other type | Duchscherer William J. |
| Murphy 1 | 31-117-04872 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Duchscherer William J. |
| Tribatti Gino 1 | 31-117-04984 | Other status | Other type | Duchscherer William J. |
| Kaiser W 1 | 31-117-05032 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Duchscherer William J. |
| Reed 1 | 31-117-05041 | Active | Gas | Norris Robert E. III |
| Olson H V 1 | 31-117-05114 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Duchscherer William J. |
| Hammond F W 1 | 31-117-05116 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Duchscherer William J. |
| Martin 1 | 31-117-06719 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Union Oil Company of California |
| Everhart 1 | 31-117-23014 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Lenape Resources Inc. |
| High 1 | 31-117-23015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Lenape Resources Inc. |
| High, K. 1 | 31-117-23018 | Active | Gas | PXG Energy LLC |
| Warrick 1 | 31-117-23019 | Other status | Other type | Lenape Resources Inc. |
| Caster 1 | 31-117-23020 | Other status | Other type | Lenape Resources Inc. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 36 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 Wayne County, NY?
Wayne County, New York has 36 catalogued oil & gas wells: 3 active, 13 plugged and 12 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Wayne County?
12 wells in Wayne County, New York are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 21st-highest count among New York counties.
What share of wells in Wayne County are plugged?
13 of Wayne County's 36 catalogued wells (36%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 44% across New York.
Which New York county has the most oil and gas wells?
Allegany County has the most catalogued wells of any New York county on WellCensus (16,110); Wayne County ranks 27th with 36.
How many companies operate wells in Wayne County?
12 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Wayne County, New York.
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About this data
Source: New York DEC Division of Mineral Resources 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 Wayne County, New York”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/new-york/wayne (data as of October 10, 2026).