Oil & gas wells in Cumberland County, TN
29 catalogued wells in Cumberland County, Tennessee, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Cumberland County, Tennessee has 29 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 28 documented orphans. It ranks 6th of the 7 Tennessee counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 3% of the state's 989 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
29
Active
0
Plugged
0
Documented orphans
28
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Cumberland County?
0% of Cumberland County's wells are active, close to the Tennessee share of 0%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 0% statewide and 47% nationally. 28 wells (97%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 90% across Tennessee and 4% nationally. The remaining 1 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Cumberland County?
By product class, 0 of the county's wells (0%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 0 (0%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 0% and the gas share 0%. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Cumberland County compare with other Tennessee counties?
Cumberland County has the 6th-most catalogued wells of the 7 Tennessee counties with at least 25. The median Tennessee county on WellCensus has 156 wells. The largest, Fentress County, has 200. By documented orphans it ranks 6th in Tennessee.
Who operates wells in Cumberland County?
Tennessee records currently come only from the USGS United States Documented Orphaned Well Database (2026); the state's own registry of active and plugged wells is not yet ingested, so counts cover documented orphans only.
Wells in Cumberland County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hill James #1 | 41-035-20017 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Hill James E #2 | 41-035-20019 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Hill James #3 | 41-035-20024 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Hill James E #4 | 41-035-20027 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Hill James E. #4-A | 41-035-20048 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Elmore Alva & Bilbrey Lillian #1 | 41-035-20052 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Page-Winningham #2 | 41-035-20061 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-035-20062 | 41-035-20062 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-035-20067 | 41-035-20067 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Dorton Mose #1 | 41-035-20072 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-035-20082 | 41-035-20082 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Skidmore Milus #1 | 41-035-20096 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Mullins William #1 | 41-035-20101 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Thomas Etal Unit #1 | 41-035-20118 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| James Wright Etal Unit #1 | 41-035-20127 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-035-20136 | 41-035-20136 | Other status | Unknown | — |
| Thelma F. Parsons/C Ford Unit #1 | 41-035-20137 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| J. D. Brannon Etal Unit #1 | 41-035-20139 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Wakefield Leland #1 | 41-035-20146 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Sherill Sherril #1 | 41-035-20150 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Odell Shirell Unit #1 | 41-035-20153 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Betty A Collett #1 | 41-035-20156 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-035-20157 | 41-035-20157 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Greer/Shirrell/Kirkland Unit #1 | 41-035-20159 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Rufus Greer #2 | 41-035-20161 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 29 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 Cumberland County, TN?
Cumberland County, Tennessee has 29 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 28 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Cumberland County?
28 wells in Cumberland County, Tennessee are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 6th-highest count among Tennessee counties.
What share of wells in Cumberland County are plugged?
0 of Cumberland County's 29 catalogued wells (0%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 0% across Tennessee.
Which Tennessee county has the most oil and gas wells?
Fentress County has the most catalogued wells of any Tennessee county on WellCensus (200); Cumberland County ranks 6th with 29.
Nearby in the Tennessee rankings
About this data
Source: 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 Cumberland County, Tennessee”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/tennessee/cumberland (data as of October 10, 2026).