How many oil and gas wells are here?
Wells from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources' public inventory of the 242,000 wells in its database (records before permitting began are incomplete, and estimates of wells ever drilled in Ohio run to 275,000). The map counts wells inside the ZIP; the card splits them into producing, plugged, horizontal shale (Utica and Marcellus), injection and orphan-program wells, and names the largest active operators.
1,229 of 1,233 ZIPs have data; median 14.
Legend
Map of Ohio by Oil and gas wells
Highest and lowest
Highest
- 45840 · Findlay4,515
- 45767 · Grandview Township and New Matamoras3,959
- 43793 · Woodsfield3,529
- 43138 · Logan3,475
- 43822 · Frazeysburg3,413
- 44654 · Berlin Township and Millersburg2,970
- 43724 · Olive Township and Caldwell2,906
- 43055 · Newark2,650
- 45745 · Salem Township and Lower Salem2,457
- 44691 · Wooster2,437
- 43754 · Summit Township and Lewisville2,328
- 43844 · Jefferson Township and Warsaw2,290
- 43758 · Malta Township and Malta2,227
- 45750 · Marietta2,211
- 44256 · Medina2,035
Lowest
- 43002 · Columbus and Amlin0
- 43007 · Taylor Township and Broadway0
- 43010 · Catawba0
- 43032 · Brown Township and Kilbourne0
- 43047 · Wayne Township and Mingo0
- 43070 · Adams Township and Rosewood0
- 43077 · Unionville Center0
- 43085 · Worthington and Columbus0
- 43101 · Adelphi0
- 43109 · Brice0
- 43116 · Commercial Point0
- 43117 · Darby Township and Derby0
- 43126 · Harrisburg0
- 43128 · Jeffersonville0
- 43142 · Milledgeville0
Source
ODNR Division of Oil and Gas Resources public well inventory (242,324 well heads, fetched 2026-09-08): wells inside each ZIP by status, horizontal shale wells, injection wells, orphan-program wells
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