Oil & gas wells in Holmes County, MS
92 catalogued wells in Holmes County, Mississippi, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Holmes County, Mississippi has 92 catalogued oil & gas wells: 3 active (3%), 78 plugged & abandoned (85%) and 2 documented orphans. It ranks 39th of the 57 Mississippi counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.3% of the state's 34,924 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
92
Active
3
Plugged
78
Documented orphans
2
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Holmes County?
3% of Holmes County's wells are active, 13 percentage points below the Mississippi share of 16%. 85% 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 9 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Holmes County?
By product class, 7 of the county's wells (8%) are oil wells, 16 (17%) gas wells and 4 (4%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 30% and the gas share 14%. The deepest total depth published for a Holmes County well is 12,077 ft, against 25,500 ft for Mississippi as a whole. 48% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Holmes County compare with other Mississippi counties?
Holmes County has the 39th-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 35th in Mississippi.
Who operates wells in Holmes County?
54 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Holmes 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 Holmes County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R A Jordan 1 1 | 23-051-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cities Service Oil Co. |
| W Luster 1 1 | 23-051-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cities Service Oil Co. |
| W M Thompson 1 1 | 23-051-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Fisher, Roy L. |
| W Tarr 1 1 | 23-051-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Free Run Oil Company |
| B W Humphreys 1 1 | 23-051-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hawkins Et Al |
| W L Ellis 1 1 | 23-051-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hawkins Et Al |
| A P Jones 1 1 | 23-051-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hawkins Et Al |
| Delta Foundation Et Al 1 1 | 23-051-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | J. Willis Hughes |
| J A Weeks 1 1 | 23-051-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | I. P. Larue |
| Sam Hall # 1 # 1 | 23-051-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Noble Clay |
| Ellis Presley 1-B 1-B | 23-051-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | George A. Miller |
| Sam D. Hall # 1 # 1 | 23-051-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Mid-Continent Oil Co. |
| W C Presley 1 1 | 23-051-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | George A. Miller |
| S. Mcfarland # 1 # 1 | 23-051-00015 | Other status | Other type | R. L. Price |
| J W Eakin 1 1 | 23-051-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Rowan Drilling Company |
| Smith 1 1 | 23-051-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Rowan Drilling Company |
| Sallie K Chisolm 1 1 | 23-051-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Sinclair Oil & Gas Co. |
| S D Gwin 1 1 | 23-051-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Exchange Oil Company |
| Bertha Russel 1 1 | 23-051-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Exchange Oil Company |
| W M Thurmond 1 1 | 23-051-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Exchange Oil Company |
| W M Spann 1 1 | 23-051-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Skelly Oil Company |
| J Garland 1 1 | 23-051-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Sohio Et Al |
| Unger-Darnell 1 1 | 23-051-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | LATIMER, D. C. et al |
| Peaster James R 1 1 | 23-051-00026 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | O. B. Trotter, Et Al |
| Board Of Supervisors 1 1 | 23-051-00027 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Marshall R. Young Et Al |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 92 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 Holmes County, MS?
Holmes County, Mississippi has 92 catalogued oil & gas wells: 3 active, 78 plugged and 2 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Holmes County?
2 wells in Holmes County, Mississippi are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 35th-highest count among Mississippi counties.
What share of wells in Holmes County are plugged?
78 of Holmes County's 92 catalogued wells (85%) 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); Holmes County ranks 39th with 92.
How many companies operate wells in Holmes County?
54 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Holmes 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 Holmes County, Mississippi”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/mississippi/holmes (data as of October 10, 2026).