Oil & gas wells in Lowndes County, MS
194 catalogued wells in Lowndes County, Mississippi, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Lowndes County, Mississippi has 194 catalogued oil & gas wells: 33 active (17%), 128 plugged & abandoned (66%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 30th of the 57 Mississippi counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.6% of the state's 34,924 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
194
Active
33
Plugged
128
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Lowndes County?
17% of Lowndes County's wells are active, close to the Mississippi share of 16%. 66% are plugged & abandoned, against 70% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (0.5%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Mississippi and 4% nationally. The remaining 32 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Lowndes County?
By product class, 37 of the county's wells (19%) are oil wells, 60 (31%) 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 Lowndes County well is 10,607 ft, against 25,500 ft for Mississippi as a whole. 60% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Lowndes County compare with other Mississippi counties?
Lowndes County has the 30th-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 38th in Mississippi.
Who operates wells in Lowndes County?
59 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Lowndes 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 Lowndes County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billups 1 1 | 23-087-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Anderson Drilling Co |
| Hardy 1 1 | 23-087-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Anderson Drilling Co |
| Carr Estate 1 1 | 23-087-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Lowndes Cty. Oil & Gas Co. |
| J C Hardy Etal Unit 1 1 | 23-087-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Socony Mobil Oil Corp. |
| W A Swoope 1 1 | 23-087-00005 | Orphaned | Other type | Ryan & Anderson, Inc. |
| H F Grant 1 1 | 23-087-20001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Occidental Petroleum |
| Duncan-Andrews Un 1 1 | 23-087-20002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Ladner-Hildebrand & Gibraltar Oil Corporation |
| Jernigan Estate 1 1 | 23-087-20003 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gibralter Gas Corp., Et Al |
| Cunningham 24 1C & 1T | 23-087-20004 | Active | Gas | Dallas Production Company, LLC |
| Wood /2/ 1 1 | 23-087-20005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | H. D. Burns, Sr. |
| Weyerhaueser 24 1T | 23-087-20006 | Active | Gas | Dallas Production Company, LLC |
| Ford 4-14 1 1 | 23-087-20007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pruet & Hughes Co. |
| Camp 24 1C & 1T | 23-087-20008 | Active | Gas | Dallas Production Company, LLC |
| Camp 24 2T & 2C | 23-087-20009 | Active | Gas | Dallas Production Company, LLC |
| Cunningham 24 2C | 23-087-20010 | Active | Gas | Dallas Production Company, LLC |
| Clardy 34 1 1 | 23-087-20011 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Burns Corp |
| Laws 23 1 SWD | 23-087-20012 | Active | Gas | Dallas Production Company, LLC |
| Gault /35/ 1 1 | 23-087-20013 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | H. D. Burns, Sr. |
| Livingston 4-6 1 1 | 23-087-20014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pruet & Hughes Co. |
| Lawrence Unit 7-7 1 1 | 23-087-20015 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Pruet Production Co |
| C D Moore 1 1 | 23-087-20016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gibralter Gas Corp., Et Al |
| Atkins /36/ 1 1 | 23-087-20017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | H. D. Burns, Sr. |
| Chism Unit 10-3 1 1 | 23-087-20018 | Plugged & abandoned | Gas | Flare Inc |
| Cunningham 3 3 | 23-087-20019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Burns Corp |
| Graves Unit 10-11 1 1 | 23-087-20020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Pruet & Hughes Co. |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 194 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 Lowndes County, MS?
Lowndes County, Mississippi has 194 catalogued oil & gas wells: 33 active, 128 plugged and 1 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Lowndes County?
1 wells in Lowndes County, Mississippi are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 38th-highest count among Mississippi counties.
What share of wells in Lowndes County are plugged?
128 of Lowndes County's 194 catalogued wells (66%) 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); Lowndes County ranks 30th with 194.
How many companies operate wells in Lowndes County?
59 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Lowndes 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 Lowndes County, Mississippi”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/mississippi/lowndes (data as of October 10, 2026).