Oil & gas wells in Hinds County, MS
539 catalogued wells in Hinds County, Mississippi, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Hinds County, Mississippi has 539 catalogued oil & gas wells: 38 active (7%), 431 plugged & abandoned (80%) and 5 documented orphans. It ranks 19th of the 57 Mississippi counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 2% of the state's 34,924 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
539
Active
38
Plugged
431
Documented orphans
5
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Hinds County?
7% of Hinds County's wells are active, 9 percentage points below the Mississippi share of 16%. 80% are plugged & abandoned, against 70% statewide and 47% nationally. 5 wells (0.9%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Mississippi and 4% nationally. The remaining 65 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Hinds County?
By product class, 124 of the county's wells (23%) are oil wells, 102 (19%) gas wells and 18 (3%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 30% and the gas share 14%. The deepest total depth published for a Hinds County well is 25,460 ft, against 25,500 ft for Mississippi as a whole. 87% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Hinds County compare with other Mississippi counties?
Hinds County has the 19th-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 25th in Mississippi.
Who operates wells in Hinds County?
251 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Hinds 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 Hinds County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Buck Ross Ag Museum 1 1 | 23-049-00000 | Other status | Other type | Ms Association Of Petroleum |
| Gaddis Farms 4 4 | 23-049-00001 | Active | Oil | Phoenix Operating, Inc |
| Walthall 2 2 | 23-049-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Alexander Jas |
| Walthall 1 1 | 23-049-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Alexander Jas |
| Mclaurin 1 1 | 23-049-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Alexander Jr |
| Gordon & Mayes 1 1 | 23-049-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Alexander & Weaver |
| L L Mayes 1 1 | 23-049-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Alexander & Weaver |
| E H Simpson 1 1 | 23-049-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Alexander & Weaver |
| Bolton Town Lots 1 1 | 23-049-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Phoenix Operating, Inc |
| Bolton Town Lots 2 | 23-049-00009 | Active | Oil | Phoenix Operating, Inc |
| Bolton Town Lots 3 3 | 23-049-00010 | Active | Oil | Phoenix Operating, Inc |
| Bolton Town Lot 4 | 23-049-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Dugger, Wm. L. Jr., Inc |
| Gaddis & Mclaurin Unit 1 | 23-049-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Dugger, Wm. L. Jr., Inc |
| Jckson Redy Mix-Bell 1 1 | 23-049-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | E. H. Anderson |
| Harvey Anderson Estate 1 1 | 23-049-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Argo Oil Corporation, Et Al |
| A M Deane Etal 1 1 | 23-049-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Argo Oil Corporation, Et Al |
| Woodland Hill 1 1 | 23-049-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | A & N Producing, Inc. |
| Overstreet 1 1 | 23-049-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Atkins & Hightower |
| Wiggins 1 1 | 23-049-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Atkinson & Dyer |
| Downing-Rehfeldt 1 1 | 23-049-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Atkinson & Dyer |
| Garber 1 1 | 23-049-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Atlas Oil Company |
| S P Mcrae 1 1 | 23-049-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Baker, Et Al |
| Permanent Investmnt 1 1 | 23-049-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Baker, Et Al |
| Henslee & Tanner-Hudson # 1 # 1 | 23-049-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | United Gas Pipeline Co |
| Elton Plantation 2 2 | 23-049-00027 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Beach-Pate Etal |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 539 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 Hinds County, MS?
Hinds County, Mississippi has 539 catalogued oil & gas wells: 38 active, 431 plugged and 5 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Hinds County?
5 wells in Hinds County, Mississippi are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 25th-highest count among Mississippi counties.
What share of wells in Hinds County are plugged?
431 of Hinds County's 539 catalogued wells (80%) 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); Hinds County ranks 19th with 539.
How many companies operate wells in Hinds County?
251 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Hinds 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 Hinds County, Mississippi”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/mississippi/hinds (data as of October 10, 2026).