Oil & gas wells in Copiah County, MS
110 catalogued wells in Copiah County, Mississippi, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Copiah County, Mississippi has 110 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 100 plugged & abandoned (91%) and 2 documented orphans. It ranks 35th of the 57 Mississippi counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.3% of the state's 34,924 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
110
Active
0
Plugged
100
Documented orphans
2
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Copiah County?
0% of Copiah County's wells are active, 16 percentage points below the Mississippi share of 16%. 91% are plugged & abandoned, against 70% statewide and 47% nationally. 2 wells (2%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Mississippi and 4% nationally. The remaining 8 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Copiah County?
By product class, 1 of the county's wells (0.9%) are oil wells, 9 (8%) gas wells and 2 (2%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 30% and the gas share 14%. The deepest total depth published for a Copiah County well is 20,614 ft, against 25,500 ft for Mississippi as a whole. 42% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Copiah County compare with other Mississippi counties?
Copiah County has the 35th-most catalogued wells of the 57 Mississippi counties with at least 25. The median Mississippi county on WellCensus has 197 wells. The largest, Adams County, has 5,963. By documented orphans it ranks 33rd in Mississippi.
Who operates wells in Copiah County?
52 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Copiah County. 100% of the county's wells carry a link to a canonical operator profile; the rest list no operator or a name not yet resolved. Each well's page names its operator where the state publishes one.
Wells in Copiah County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F D Barlow 1 1 | 23-029-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amerada Petroleum Co. |
| E G Nelson 1 1 | 23-029-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amerada Petroleum Co. |
| J H Carroway 1 1 | 23-029-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Arkansas Fuel Oil Corp |
| Magnolia Textiles 1 1 | 23-029-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | California Company |
| V E Weeks 1 1 | 23-029-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | California Company |
| Mamie Wilson 1 1 | 23-029-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | R. J. Carraway |
| N Reynolds Etal 1 1 | 23-029-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Carter Oil Co. |
| School Land 1 1 | 23-029-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Carter Oil Co. |
| C S Bailey 1 1 | 23-029-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cities Service Oil Co. |
| W E Jasper 1 1 | 23-029-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dixilyn Drilling Corp. |
| Magnolia Textile 1 1 | 23-029-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | X. M. Franscogna Et Al |
| E Allen 1 1 | 23-029-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Freeport Sulphur Company |
| Cecil Bell 1 1 | 23-029-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Freeport Sulphur Company |
| Cecil Bell 2 2 | 23-029-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Freeport Sulphur Company |
| W B Cliburn 1 1 | 23-029-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Freeport Sulphur Company |
| W B Cliburn 1-A 1-A | 23-029-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Freeport Sulphur Company |
| B F James 1 1 | 23-029-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Freeport Sulphur Company |
| H E Richardson 1 1 | 23-029-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Freeport Sulphur Company |
| Southern Package 1 1 | 23-029-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Freeport Sulphur Company |
| Southern Package 2 2 | 23-029-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Freeport Sulphur Company |
| Gtesville Unt 24-10 1 1 | 23-029-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gulf Oil Corp. |
| W B Purser Etal 1 1 | 23-029-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Panuco Oil Leases, Inc. |
| Federal Land Bank 14-5 14-5 | 23-029-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Southern States - Jett Drlg. Et Al |
| Frank M Smith 1 1 | 23-029-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Curtis Kinard |
| W W Broome 1 1 | 23-029-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | George Koch Et Al |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 110 in search → (filter by operator, status and type, then export), or find a specific well on the live map.
Frequently asked questions
How many oil and gas wells are in Copiah County, MS?
Copiah County, Mississippi has 110 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 100 plugged and 2 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Copiah County?
2 wells in Copiah County, Mississippi are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 33rd-highest count among Mississippi counties.
What share of wells in Copiah County are plugged?
100 of Copiah County's 110 catalogued wells (91%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 70% across Mississippi.
Which Mississippi county has the most oil and gas wells?
Adams County has the most catalogued wells of any Mississippi county on WellCensus (5,963); Copiah County ranks 35th with 110.
How many companies operate wells in Copiah County?
52 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Copiah County, Mississippi.
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About this data
Source: Mississippi State Oil & Gas Board well registry, plus the USGS United States Documented Orphaned Well Database (2026, doi 10.5066/P13FHBYG), as published October 10, 2026 — WellCensus refreshes it monthly. See the methodology for how records are matched, cleaned and scored.
Cite as: WellCensus, “Oil & gas wells in Copiah County, Mississippi”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/mississippi/copiah (data as of October 10, 2026).