Oil & gas wells in Cooke County, TX
37 catalogued wells in Cooke County, Texas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Cooke County, Texas has 37 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 1 documented orphans. It ranks 46th of the 65 Texas counties WellCensus profiles by well count and holds 0.0% of the state's 964,593 catalogued wells. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county (see below).
Catalogued wells
37
Active
0
Plugged
0
Documented orphans
1
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Cooke County?
0% of Cooke County's wells are active, 35 percentage points below the Texas share of 35%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 42% statewide and 47% nationally. 1 wells (3%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.9% across Texas and 4% nationally. The remaining 36 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Cooke County?
By product class, 35 of the county's wells (95%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 1 (3%) injection wells. Statewide the oil share is 48% and the gas share 13%. 100% of the county's wells carry coordinates and appear on the map.
How does Cooke County compare with other Texas counties?
Cooke County has the 46th-most catalogued wells of the 65 Texas counties with at least 25. The median Texas county on WellCensus has 50 wells. The largest, Pecos County, has 489. By documented orphans it ranks 62nd in Texas.
Who operates wells in Cooke County?
Texas records come from the Railroad Commission's statewide surface-well layer, which publishes each wellbore's API number, coordinates and map symbol (status) but no well name, operator, county, dates or depth; those fields await the RRC's full-attribute bulk file.
Wells in Cooke County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Well API 42-097-84461 | 42-097-84461 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-31445 | 42-097-31445 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-31449 | 42-097-31449 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-31547 | 42-097-31547 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-31548 | 42-097-31548 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-31629 | 42-097-31629 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-31739 | 42-097-31739 | Other status | Injection | — |
| Well API 42-097-32309 | 42-097-32309 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-32880 | 42-097-32880 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-32917 | 42-097-32917 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-32940 | 42-097-32940 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-33057 | 42-097-33057 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-33090 | 42-097-33090 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-33857 | 42-097-33857 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-82683 | 42-097-82683 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-82695 | 42-097-82695 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-82696 | 42-097-82696 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-82697 | 42-097-82697 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-82717 | 42-097-82717 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-84457 | 42-097-84457 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-84459 | 42-097-84459 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-84460 | 42-097-84460 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-84462 | 42-097-84462 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-31740 | 42-097-31740 | Orphaned | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-097-00359 | 42-097-00359 | Other status | Oil | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 37 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 Cooke County, TX?
Cooke County, Texas has 37 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 1 documented orphans. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county.
How many orphaned wells are in Cooke County?
1 wells in Cooke County, Texas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 62nd-highest count among Texas counties.
What share of wells in Cooke County are plugged?
0 of Cooke County's 37 catalogued wells (0%) are plugged & abandoned, compared with 42% across Texas.
Which Texas county has the most oil and gas wells?
Pecos County has the most catalogued wells of any Texas county on WellCensus (489); Cooke County ranks 46th with 37.
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About this data
Source: Texas Railroad Commission statewide surface-well layer (August 2019 snapshot), 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 Cooke County, Texas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/texas/cooke (data as of October 10, 2026).