Oil & gas wells in Itawamba County, MS
151 catalogued wells in Itawamba County, Mississippi, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Itawamba County, Mississippi has 151 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 123 plugged & abandoned (81%) and 17 documented orphans. It ranks 34th of the 57 Mississippi counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.4% of the state's 34,924 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
151
Active
0
Plugged
123
Documented orphans
17
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Itawamba County?
0% of Itawamba County's wells are active, 16 percentage points below the Mississippi share of 16%. 81% are plugged & abandoned, against 70% statewide and 47% nationally. 17 wells (11%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Mississippi and 4% nationally. The remaining 11 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Itawamba County?
By product class, 2 of the county's wells (1%) are oil wells, 36 (24%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 30% and the gas share 14%. The deepest total depth published for a Itawamba County well is 3,500 ft, against 25,500 ft for Mississippi as a whole. 54% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Itawamba County compare with other Mississippi counties?
Itawamba County has the 34th-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 8th in Mississippi.
Who operates wells in Itawamba County?
58 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Itawamba 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 Itawamba County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilmore-Puckett Lumber #1 1 | 23-057-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Itawamba Industrial Gas Co |
| J. G. Lesley 1 1 | 23-057-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Beard, Frank |
| R L Burdine 1 1 | 23-057-00003 | Orphaned | Other type | Borden, F. P. |
| Elsie Maxey 1 1 | 23-057-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Browning & Welch, Inc |
| L. F. Pierce et al 1 1 | 23-057-00005 | Orphaned | Gas | Armour, Dale C. |
| Stegall 1 1 | 23-057-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Clay Oil & Gas Corporation Et Al |
| W. H. Summers 1 1 | 23-057-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Itawamba Industrial Gas Co |
| Bonnie Adams 1 1 | 23-057-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Rebel Drilling Co., Inc. |
| Barnes unit #1 1 1 | 23-057-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gragg Dril. Co. & Lancer Prod. |
| Gilmore-Puckett Lumber Co. # 2 # 2 | 23-057-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Gragg Dril. Co. & Lancer Prod. |
| Gilmore-Puckett Lumber unit 2 #1 1 | 23-057-00012 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Itawamba Industrial Gas Co |
| Curtis Tucker unit 1 1 | 23-057-00013 | Other status | Gas | Bill Howell |
| W A Delaney 1 1 | 23-057-00014 | Orphaned | Other type | Grasty, Gordon C. |
| Kentucky Lumber 1 1 | 23-057-00015 | Orphaned | Other type | Grasty, Gordon C. |
| J. E. Kennedy 1 1 | 23-057-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Hillman, C. A. |
| V. R. McMillan 1 1 | 23-057-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Itawamba Industrial Gas Co |
| Kilpatrick Planing Mill Co 1 1 | 23-057-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Itawamba Associates, Inc. |
| L M Gilliand 1 1 | 23-057-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Dan M. Lee |
| Bon R Adams 1 1 | 23-057-00020 | Orphaned | Other type | Whitlock, J. T. |
| R L Burdine 1 1 | 23-057-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Magnolia Petroleum Co. |
| Woods 1 1 | 23-057-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | KERR-McGEE CORP. |
| C D Barnes 1 1 | 23-057-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | McCULLOUGH, THOS. H. |
| E C Mattox 1 1 | 23-057-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Nichols, E. T. |
| W. A. Delaney 1 1 | 23-057-00025 | Orphaned | Other type | Navarro Exploration Co. |
| Eula Little 1 1 | 23-057-00026 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pine, William H. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 151 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 Itawamba County, MS?
Itawamba County, Mississippi has 151 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 123 plugged and 17 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Itawamba County?
17 wells in Itawamba County, Mississippi are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 8th-highest count among Mississippi counties.
What share of wells in Itawamba County are plugged?
123 of Itawamba County's 151 catalogued wells (81%) 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); Itawamba County ranks 34th with 151.
How many companies operate wells in Itawamba County?
58 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Itawamba 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 Itawamba County, Mississippi”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/mississippi/itawamba (data as of October 10, 2026).