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Oil & gas wells in Guadalupe County, TX

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

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Guadalupe County, Texas has 152 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 7 documented orphans. It ranks 6th 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

152

Active

0

Plugged

0

Documented orphans

7

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 Guadalupe County?

0% of Guadalupe County's wells are active, 35 percentage points below the Texas share of 35%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 42% statewide and 47% nationally. 7 wells (5%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.9% across Texas and 4% nationally. The remaining 145 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Guadalupe County?

By product class, 147 of the county's wells (97%) 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 Guadalupe County compare with other Texas counties?

Guadalupe County has the 6th-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 50th in Texas.

Who operates wells in Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe County, TX
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
Montgomeryvalerie 142-187-02958OrphanedOther type—
Grubbs W.E. Et Al 142-187-80026OrphanedOther type—
Montgomeryvalerie 242-187-02959OrphanedOther type—
Hartfield F. Et Al -B- 1342-187-80775OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-187-3026742-187-30267Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3204842-187-32048Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-0257342-187-02573Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3362642-187-33626Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3249442-187-32494Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3249542-187-32495Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3249642-187-32496Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3250042-187-32500Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3250142-187-32501Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3135442-187-31354Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3141942-187-31419Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3150142-187-31501Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3150242-187-31502Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3150342-187-31503Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3150442-187-31504Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3161442-187-31614Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3178442-187-31784Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3178542-187-31785Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3178642-187-31786Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3178742-187-31787Other statusOil—
Well API 42-187-3178842-187-31788Other statusOil—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 152 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 Guadalupe County, TX?

Guadalupe County, Texas has 152 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 7 documented orphans. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county.

How many orphaned wells are in Guadalupe County?

7 wells in Guadalupe County, Texas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 50th-highest count among Texas counties.

What share of wells in Guadalupe County are plugged?

0 of Guadalupe County's 152 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); Guadalupe County ranks 6th with 152.

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