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API 15141000040000 · Osborne County, Kansas · WILDCAT field

Plugged and AbandonedPlugged 1958-12-23
API
15141000040000
Operator
unavailable
County
Osborne
Field
WILDCAT
Permit
09-DEC-1958
Spudded
1958-12-10
Completed
1958-12-23
Plugged
1958-12-23
Measured depth
4,144 ft

Formation tops

Kansas records 19 formations for this well, shallowest first.

FormationTop (ft)Base (ft)
Stone Corral Formation738—
Wellington Formation872—
Hutchinson Salt Member1,1051,352
Chase Group1,497—
Fort Riley Limestone Member1,728—
Indian Cave Sandstone Bed2,422—
Topeka Limestone Formation2,582—
Heebner Shale Member2,892—
Lansing - Kansas City Supergroup2,963—
Kansas City—3,302
Basal Pennsylvanian Conglomerate3,446—
Mississippian System3,567—
Gilmore City Limestone Formation3,689—
Kinderhookian Stage3,716—
Hunton Group3,761—
Maquoketa Shale Formation3,765—
Viola Limestone Formation3,790—
Simpson Group4,030—
Arbuckle Group4,091—

A dash is a formation Kansas records for this well without a depth. In the base column a dash is also a depth Kansas’s sources record differently from one another.

Location

39.190259, -98.544315

39.19026, -98.54431 · Surface location as filed with Kansas

Every well in Osborne County, Kansas

Kansas state record, from KS_wells_ks_wells.parquet. Corpus built 2026-09-11.