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Oil & gas wells in Gonzales County, TX

27 catalogued wells in Gonzales County, Texas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Gonzales County, Texas has 27 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 20 documented orphans. It ranks 61st 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

27

Active

0

Plugged

0

Documented orphans

20

Coverage note: The Railroad Commission's statewide location layer that supplies most Texas records carries no county field, so this county count covers only wells whose source record names the county — chiefly the federal orphaned-well inventory — and is far below the true number of wells in the county. The statewide total is on the Texas page: 964,593 wells in Texas.

What is the status of oil and gas wells in Gonzales County?

0% of Gonzales County's wells are active, 35 percentage points below the Texas share of 35%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 42% statewide and 47% nationally. 20 wells (74%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.9% across Texas and 4% nationally. The remaining 7 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Gonzales County?

By product class, 16 of the county's wells (59%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 0 (0%) 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 Gonzales County compare with other Texas counties?

Gonzales County has the 61st-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 32nd in Texas.

Who operates wells in Gonzales 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.

Oil & gas wells in Gonzales County, TX
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
Well API 42-177-3129642-177-31296Other statusOil—
Well API 42-177-3207542-177-32075Other statusOther type—
Well API 42-177-3020542-177-30205OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-177-3086742-177-30867Other statusOil—
Well API 42-177-3089842-177-30898Other statusOil—
Well API 42-177-3053842-177-30538OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-177-3071942-177-30719OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-177-3075442-177-30754OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-177-3077942-177-30779OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-177-3170142-177-31701OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-177-3179042-177-31790OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-177-3179742-177-31797OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-177-3180342-177-31803OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-177-3184342-177-31843OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-177-3189842-177-31898OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-177-3236442-177-32364OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-177-3316642-177-33166OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-177-3333342-177-33333OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-177-3042442-177-30424OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-177-3084142-177-30841OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-177-3197142-177-31971OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-177-3100242-177-31002Other statusOil—
Well API 42-177-3087642-177-30876OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-177-0045942-177-00459Other statusOil—
Well API 42-177-3094042-177-30940OrphanedOil—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 27 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 Gonzales County, TX?

Gonzales County, Texas has 27 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 20 documented orphans. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county.

How many orphaned wells are in Gonzales County?

20 wells in Gonzales County, Texas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 32nd-highest count among Texas counties.

What share of wells in Gonzales County are plugged?

0 of Gonzales County's 27 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); Gonzales County ranks 61st with 27.

Nearby in the Texas rankings

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 Gonzales County, Texas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/texas/gonzales (data as of October 10, 2026).