I found flowing wells through sheer exploration until I used tips on social media to to expand my search. Eventually, I stumbled across Indiana University’s Interactive Petroleum Data Management System Map, an online tool that gave me the sites of old gas wells across the state! Some had since become flowing water wells, like the one I found near Anderson a few years ago. Unfortunately, I won’t get to see it in person for a couple more months. 

I’ve noticed an odd pattern lately: it seems like every recent dental appointment has been followed by the discovery of a new-to-me artesian well! I know correlation doesn’t equal causation, but at this point I’m suspicious enough that I’d happily endure thirty root canals and thirty painful extractions if it meant finding sixty more flowing wells. Fortunately, unlike my last post-dental adventure, Madison County’s J.H. Rent Well was still doing exactly what an artesian well is supposed to do- flow with water.