Inactive Well — Morton County

313 of the 4,399 wells on the register in Morton County — 7.1% — carry this class.

What this class means

on the register, not producing, and not plugged. This is the category a landowner should look at hardest.

Morton County holds 2.1% of the wells in this class statewide, while holding 0.8% of the register overall — so the class is over-represented here.

What stands out among these

The operator named on most of these records is Anadarko Production CO, on 27 of them (8.6%), ahead of Anadarko Petroleum Corp (20) and Colorado Interstate Gas Co., LLC (15). The oldest well here was completed in 1930 and the most recent in 2026, and the deepest reaches 6730 feet — Hall P 3, drilled in 2016.

Who operated them

An old well on land in Morton County?

0 wells in Morton County were plugged at the State’s expense, out of 313 on the register — the sign that an operator was gone. If you find a well on your land, report it and do not tidy it up: knocking over casing can make you the responsible party. This site reads the register; it does not plug wells. Tell us where and we pass the request to Kansas operators and consultants.

We recommend nobody and we are nobody's agent. We have no arrangement with any firm today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

The wells

Part of a bigger picture: all 4,399 wells in Morton County.

Other groups of a similar size

• ON LIST — Crawford 321
• Inactive Well — Seward 321
• Well Drilled — Cowley 320
• Recompleted — Graham 320
• Well Drilled — Greenwood 316
• Producing — Meade 313
• Producing — Phillips 310
• Producing — Hodgeman 308
• Expired Intent to Drill (C-1) — Cowley 306
• Converted to EOR Well — Greenwood 304
• Approved Intent to Drill — Greenwood 303