Oil & gas wells in Pike County, MS
927 catalogued wells in Pike County, Mississippi, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Pike County, Mississippi has 927 catalogued oil & gas wells: 49 active (5%), 787 plugged & abandoned (85%) and 6 documented orphans. It ranks 15th of the 57 Mississippi counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 3% of the state's 34,924 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
927
Active
49
Plugged
787
Documented orphans
6
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Pike County?
5% of Pike County's wells are active, 11 percentage points below the Mississippi share of 16%. 85% are plugged & abandoned, against 70% statewide and 47% nationally. 4 wells (0.4%) are shut-in — unplugged but idle. 6 wells (0.6%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Mississippi and 4% nationally. The remaining 81 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Pike County?
By product class, 520 of the county's wells (56%) are oil wells, 5 (0.5%) gas wells and 36 (4%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 30% and the gas share 14%. The deepest total depth published for a Pike County well is 19,000 ft, against 25,500 ft for Mississippi as a whole. 72% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Pike County compare with other Mississippi counties?
Pike County has the 15th-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 20th in Mississippi.
Who operates wells in Pike County?
221 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Pike 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 Pike County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAZY CREEK UNIT (frmly:William Lewman #1) 8-10 | 23-113-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| Daniel O Lewman 3 3 | 23-113-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | The Cane Corp. Et Al |
| LzCU (fmly:Lewman-Fedler Unit #1) 9-5 | 23-113-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| Lewman 8-8 1 1 | 23-113-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Injection | Cameron Operating Co. |
| Barnes Burris 1 1 | 23-113-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Sun Oil Company |
| West Lazy Creek Unit 17-13 (fmly Lofton #1) 1 | 23-113-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| Lofton 2 2 | 23-113-00007 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | The Cane Corp. Et Al |
| McCORMICK UNIT 6-10 6-10 | 23-113-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | The Cane Corp. Et Al |
| Van Norman 1 1 | 23-113-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | The Cane Corp. Et Al |
| Lcu 2-6a (2-6- Jones) 1 | 23-113-00010 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| McCOMB FIELD UNIT 22-4(fmrly:CGBelknap-Sells) 1 1 | 23-113-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| MCCOMB FIELD UNIT 5-5 (fmly Freeman Un A-1) 1 1 | 23-113-00012 | Active | Oil | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| MCCOMB UNIT 10-5 (Fmly SCHMIDT) 1 | 23-113-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| Mccomb Unit # 5-6 1 | 23-113-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| Mccomb Unit 15-10 1 | 23-113-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| McCOMB Field Unit 5-14 1 1 | 23-113-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| Richard E Schmidt 2 2 | 23-113-00018 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Lyle Cashion Co. |
| Mccomb Unit # 9-8 3 | 23-113-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| A H Reed Etal Unit 1 1 | 23-113-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Sun Oil Company |
| Unit 11-16 1 1 | 23-113-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Shell Oil Co. -Nola |
| Dunnaway 1 1 | 23-113-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Chartor Oil Co. Et Al |
| Brumfield 1 1 | 23-113-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | E. Cockrell, Jr. Et Al |
| Lcu 14-16 (Haynes Brock No. 1) . | 23-113-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| Lcu 10-7 (Hartwell-Wallace Unit No. 1) . | 23-113-00026 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Denbury Onshore, LLC |
| Southwest Junior 1 1 | 23-113-00027 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Cordell, Ballard Et Al |
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Frequently asked questions
How many oil and gas wells are in Pike County, MS?
Pike County, Mississippi has 927 catalogued oil & gas wells: 49 active, 787 plugged and 6 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Pike County?
6 wells in Pike County, Mississippi are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 20th-highest count among Mississippi counties.
What share of wells in Pike County are plugged?
787 of Pike County's 927 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); Pike County ranks 15th with 927.
How many companies operate wells in Pike County?
221 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Pike 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 Pike County, Mississippi”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/mississippi/pike (data as of October 10, 2026).