Oil & gas wells in Pickett County, TN
84 catalogued wells in Pickett County, Tennessee, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Pickett County, Tennessee has 84 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 74 documented orphans. It ranks 5th of the 7 Tennessee counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 8% of the state's 989 catalogued wells.
Catalogued wells
84
Active
0
Plugged
0
Documented orphans
74
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Pickett County?
0% of Pickett County's wells are active, close to the Tennessee share of 0%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 0% statewide and 47% nationally. 74 wells (88%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 90% across Tennessee and 4% nationally. The remaining 10 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Pickett 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 Pickett County compare with other Tennessee counties?
Pickett County has the 5th-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 5th in Tennessee.
Who operates wells in Pickett 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 Pickett County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Well API 41-137-00031 | 41-137-00031 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Delk W P #1 | 41-137-00109 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Hassler Vernon #1 | 41-137-00143 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Pritchard Willard #2 | 41-137-00184 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-137-20018 | 41-137-20018 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-137-20020 | 41-137-20020 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-137-20035 | 41-137-20035 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-137-20050 | 41-137-20050 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Evans H C #1 | 41-137-20065 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Russell Gentry #2 | 41-137-20069 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Rich Sheldon #1 | 41-137-20078 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-137-20082 | 41-137-20082 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-137-20097 | 41-137-20097 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-137-20100 | 41-137-20100 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Beason C-Beason K-Brown N-Nevins W #1 | 41-137-20109 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-137-20112 | 41-137-20112 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Riley Steve #1 | 41-137-20114 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Stearns Coal & Lumber Company #2 | 41-137-20120 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-137-20127 | 41-137-20127 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Beason Herbert #1 | 41-137-20130 | Orphaned | Other type | — |
| Well API 41-137-20140 | 41-137-20140 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-137-20144 | 41-137-20144 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-137-20146 | 41-137-20146 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-137-20149 | 41-137-20149 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
| Well API 41-137-20150 | 41-137-20150 | Orphaned | Unknown | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 84 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 Pickett County, TN?
Pickett County, Tennessee has 84 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 74 documented orphans.
How many orphaned wells are in Pickett County?
74 wells in Pickett County, Tennessee are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 5th-highest count among Tennessee counties.
What share of wells in Pickett County are plugged?
0 of Pickett County's 84 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); Pickett County ranks 5th with 84.
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 Pickett County, Tennessee”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/tennessee/pickett (data as of October 10, 2026).