Approximate Location of Well

ID: 2018 ~ Source: From the collections of the Howard County Historical Society ~ Creator: Dave Broman ~ Date: May 2020

This file appears in: Natural Gas Well Drilled in Kokomo

The first gas well in Kokomo was located near what is now the downtown business district. Today, no trace of that well remains on the landscape.

This file appears in: Natural Gas Well Drilled in Kokomo

Natural Gas Well Drilled in Kokomo

By Howard County Historical Society

The use of natural gas as fuel goes back to the 1820s, but its real value didn’t become apparent until the 1880s. The discovery of a gas reserve in Pennsylvania revolutionized the steel and glass manufacturing industries there in the 1870s and…