Oil & gas wells in Morgan County, TN
156 catalogued wells in Morgan County, Tennessee, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Morgan County, Tennessee has 156 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 149 documented orphans. It ranks 4th of the 7 Tennessee counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 16% of the state's 989 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
156
Active
0
Plugged
0
Documented orphans
149
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Morgan County?
0% of Morgan County's wells are active, close to the Tennessee share of 0%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 0% statewide and 47% nationally. 149 wells (96%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 90% across Tennessee and 4% nationally. The remaining 7 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Morgan 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 Morgan County compare with other Tennessee counties?
Morgan County has the 4th-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 3rd in Tennessee.
Who operates wells in Morgan 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 Morgan County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Well API 41-129-00062 | 41-129-00062 | Other status | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-129-00069 | 41-129-00069 | Other status | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-129-00070 | 41-129-00070 | Other status | Unknown | — |
| Tompkins Loy #1 | 41-129-10006 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-129-20008 | 41-129-20008 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-129-20089 | 41-129-20089 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Chester Huling #1 | 41-129-20097 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Robinson James N #1 | 41-129-20118 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Melton Truman #1 | 41-129-20119 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-129-20169 | 41-129-20169 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-129-20179 | 41-129-20179 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Collins-Human Unit #1 | 41-129-20188 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Jessie Bales A E Sebby Charles W #1 | 41-129-20230 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Stringfield Barbra & Franklin #1 | 41-129-20258 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Young Y F #1 | 41-129-20275 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-129-20282 | 41-129-20282 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| York Bobby #1 | 41-129-20303 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-129-20307 | 41-129-20307 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Plateau Properties #1 | 41-129-20322 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| York Bobby #1 | 41-129-20325 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-129-20333 | 41-129-20333 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Tompkins Ovid #1 | 41-129-20337 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Duncan - Smith Heirs #1 | 41-129-20341 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Kreis M C #1 | 41-129-20357 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-129-20361 | 41-129-20361 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 156 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 Morgan County, TN?
Morgan County, Tennessee has 156 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 149 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Morgan County?
149 wells in Morgan County, Tennessee are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 3rd-highest count among Tennessee counties.
What share of wells in Morgan County are plugged?
0 of Morgan County's 156 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); Morgan County ranks 4th with 156.
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 Morgan County, Tennessee”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/tennessee/morgan (data as of October 10, 2026).