Oil & gas wells in Lee County, MS
88 catalogued wells in Lee County, Mississippi, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Lee County, Mississippi has 88 catalogued oil & gas wells: 13 active (15%), 63 plugged & abandoned (72%) and 2 documented orphans. It ranks 41st of the 57 Mississippi counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.3% of the state's 34,924 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
88
Active
13
Plugged
63
Documented orphans
2
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Lee County?
15% of Lee County's wells are active, 2 percentage points below the Mississippi share of 16%. 72% 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 10 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Lee County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 40 (45%) 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 Lee County well is 7,000 ft, against 25,500 ft for Mississippi as a whole. 57% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Lee County compare with other Mississippi counties?
Lee County has the 41st-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 36th in Mississippi.
Who operates wells in Lee County?
29 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Lee 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 Lee County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whiteside 1 1 | 23-081-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | J. P. Evans |
| W H Neely 1 1 | 23-081-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Kenneth A. Ellison |
| Hickman 1 1 | 23-081-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Lee County Petroleum Co. |
| Martin # 1 # 1 | 23-081-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | R. L. Shoemaker Et Al |
| Temple-Harmon Unit 1 1 | 23-081-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | J. F. Michael, Et Al |
| J C Westmoreland 1 1 | 23-081-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Smith & Michael |
| Garmon 32-12 1 1 | 23-081-20001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Moon-Hines, LLC. |
| Filgo 1 1 | 23-081-20002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ergon, Inc. |
| Hill /20/ 1 1 | 23-081-20003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Burns Corp |
| Metcalfe 1 1 | 23-081-20004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Furrh Inc. |
| Ethridge M L 7-7 1 1 | 23-081-20005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Getty Oil Co. |
| Hester 27-9 1 1 | 23-081-20006 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Atmos Energy Corporation |
| Robert Ivy 11-1 1 1 | 23-081-20007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pruet Production Co |
| Godwin 23-5 1 1 | 23-081-20008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Louisiana Land & Exploration Co. |
| Tally 31-16 1 1 | 23-081-20009 | Active | Gas | Scorpion Oil & Gas, LLC |
| Rogers 22-2 1 1 | 23-081-20010 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Louisiana Land & Exploration Co. |
| Vaughan 23-10 # 1 # 1 | 23-081-20011 | Other status | Other type | Louisiana Land & Exploration Co. |
| Bryan 27-11 1 1 | 23-081-20012 | Active | Gas | Atmos Energy Corporation |
| Stevens-Bigler 32-13 1 | 23-081-20013 | Active | Gas | Scorpion Oil & Gas, LLC |
| Hinson 28-6 1 1 | 23-081-20014 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Mississippi Valley Gas Co |
| Parker J R 34-7 1 1 | 23-081-20015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Southland Royalty |
| Gary & Coggins 27-9 1 1 | 23-081-20016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Southland Royalty |
| Loyd Cecil W 33-5 1 1 | 23-081-20017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Southland Royalty |
| Craft 28-9 1 1 | 23-081-20018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pruet Production Co |
| Mary Rutherford 17-10 1 1 | 23-081-20019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gibraltar Energy Company |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 88 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 Lee County, MS?
Lee County, Mississippi has 88 catalogued oil & gas wells: 13 active, 63 plugged and 2 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Lee County?
2 wells in Lee County, Mississippi are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 36th-highest count among Mississippi counties.
What share of wells in Lee County are plugged?
63 of Lee County's 88 catalogued wells (72%) 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); Lee County ranks 41st with 88.
How many companies operate wells in Lee County?
29 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Lee County, Mississippi.
Nearby in the Mississippi rankings
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 Lee County, Mississippi”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/mississippi/lee (data as of October 10, 2026).