Oil & gas wells in Fentress County, TN
200 catalogued wells in Fentress County, Tennessee, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Fentress County, Tennessee has 200 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 194 documented orphans. It ranks 1st of the 7 Tennessee counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 20% of the state's 989 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
200
Active
0
Plugged
0
Documented orphans
194
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Fentress County?
0% of Fentress County's wells are active, close to the Tennessee share of 0%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 0% statewide and 47% nationally. 194 wells (97%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 90% across Tennessee and 4% nationally. The remaining 6 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Fentress 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 Fentress County compare with other Tennessee counties?
Fentress County has the most catalogued wells of the 7 Tennessee counties with at least 25. The median Tennessee county on WellCensus has 156 wells. By documented orphans it ranks 1st in Tennessee.
Who operates wells in Fentress 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 Fentress County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Well API 41-049-00009 | 41-049-00009 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Crisp Brothers #1 | 41-049-00023 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Bowden Albert #1 | 41-049-00141 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Pile A W #1 | 41-049-10003 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Davis Doyle #2 | 41-049-10004 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Sharpe Sterling #1 | 41-049-10006 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Peavyhouse Will #1 | 41-049-20006 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Beaty Bruce #1 | 41-049-20026 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-049-20043 | 41-049-20043 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Reagan Joe #1 | 41-049-20045 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Gernit Estate Incorporated #7 | 41-049-20076 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Gernt Estate Incorporated #8 | 41-049-20079 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-049-20080 | 41-049-20080 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Beaty Brooks #1 | 41-049-20095 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-049-20101 | 41-049-20101 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-049-20104 | 41-049-20104 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-049-20118 | 41-049-20118 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-049-20122 | 41-049-20122 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| J M Huber Corporation #3 | 41-049-20155 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-049-20162 | 41-049-20162 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Tompkins Edward #1 | 41-049-20163 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-049-20174 | 41-049-20174 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-049-20175 | 41-049-20175 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Myers Et Al #1 | 41-049-20182 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-049-20185 | 41-049-20185 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 200 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 Fentress County, TN?
Fentress County, Tennessee has 200 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 194 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Fentress County?
194 wells in Fentress County, Tennessee are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 1st-highest count among Tennessee counties.
What share of wells in Fentress County are plugged?
0 of Fentress County's 200 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, with 200.
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 Fentress County, Tennessee”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/tennessee/fentress (data as of October 10, 2026).