Oil & gas wells in Sharkey County, MS
102 catalogued wells in Sharkey County, Mississippi, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Sharkey County, Mississippi has 102 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 89 plugged & abandoned (87%) and 7 documented orphans. It ranks 37th of the 57 Mississippi counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.3% of the state's 34,924 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
102
Active
0
Plugged
89
Documented orphans
7
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Sharkey County?
0% of Sharkey County's wells are active, 16 percentage points below the Mississippi share of 16%. 87% are plugged & abandoned, against 70% statewide and 47% nationally. 7 wells (7%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 2% across Mississippi and 4% nationally. The remaining 6 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Sharkey County?
By product class, 12 of the county's wells (12%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 2 (2%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 30% and the gas share 14%. The deepest total depth published for a Sharkey County well is 11,732 ft, against 25,500 ft for Mississippi as a whole. 41% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Sharkey County compare with other Mississippi counties?
Sharkey County has the 37th-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 19th in Mississippi.
Who operates wells in Sharkey County?
58 distinct operators of record are linked to wells in Sharkey 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 Sharkey County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panther Burn 1 1 | 23-125-00001 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amerada Hess Corp. |
| Panther Burn 2 2 | 23-125-00002 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Amerada Hess Corp. |
| U S A-Vaughey 1 1 | 23-125-00003 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Vaughey & Vaughey |
| Houston 1 1 | 23-125-00004 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Atlantic Refining Co. |
| A Y Keith 1 1 | 23-125-00005 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Boyson, Harold K. |
| Houston Estate 1 1 | 23-125-00006 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Bradley Producing Corp. |
| F. B. Houston 1 1 | 23-125-00007 | Orphaned | Other type | British American Oil Co. |
| F B Houston Est A-1 A-1 | 23-125-00008 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | Shelton, J. Paul |
| F B Houston Est 2 2 | 23-125-00009 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | British American Oil Co. |
| HOUSTON (formerly #3) 1 1 | 23-125-00010 | Orphaned | Oil | Pi-Bo Oil Co. |
| Lee Pickert # 1 # 1 | 23-125-00011 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | British American Oil Co. |
| Ward 1 1 | 23-125-00013 | Plugged & abandoned | Oil | British American Oil Co. |
| Wilda Nash 1 1 | 23-125-00014 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Peter Campbell |
| F B Houston Est 1 1 | 23-125-00015 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Carter Oil Co. |
| U S D A 1 1 | 23-125-00016 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Continental Oil Co. |
| U S D A 1 1 | 23-125-00017 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Continental Oil Co. |
| D D Wells 1 1 | 23-125-00018 | Orphaned | Other type | C. W. Crader |
| Castle 1 1 | 23-125-00019 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Creighton, Clyde |
| W H Cooper 1 1 | 23-125-00020 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Eureka Petroleum Co. |
| Houston Est # 1 # 1 | 23-125-00021 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | R. E. Fair |
| Houston Estate # 1 # 1 | 23-125-00022 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gas Rock Corp. |
| M E Ward # 1 # 1 | 23-125-00023 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Gas Rock Corp. |
| F B Graft 1 1 | 23-125-00024 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | P. J. Gay Co. |
| Carpenter & Craft 1 1 | 23-125-00025 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Maner Graham |
| D B Moore 1 1 | 23-125-00026 | Plugged & abandoned | Other type | Maner Graham |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 102 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 Sharkey County, MS?
Sharkey County, Mississippi has 102 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 89 plugged and 7 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Sharkey County?
7 wells in Sharkey County, Mississippi are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 19th-highest count among Mississippi counties.
What share of wells in Sharkey County are plugged?
89 of Sharkey County's 102 catalogued wells (87%) 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); Sharkey County ranks 37th with 102.
How many companies operate wells in Sharkey County?
58 distinct operators of record are linked to catalogued wells in Sharkey 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 Sharkey County, Mississippi”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/mississippi/sharkey (data as of October 10, 2026).