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Oil & gas wells in Harrison County, TX

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

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Harrison County, Texas has 47 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 5 documented orphans. It ranks 35th 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

47

Active

0

Plugged

0

Documented orphans

5

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 Harrison County?

0% of Harrison County's wells are active, 35 percentage points below the Texas share of 35%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 42% statewide and 47% nationally. 5 wells (11%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.9% across Texas and 4% nationally. The remaining 42 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Harrison County?

By product class, 40 of the county's wells (85%) are oil wells, 3 (6%) gas wells and 1 (2%) 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 Harrison County compare with other Texas counties?

Harrison County has the 35th-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 55th in Texas.

Who operates wells in Harrison 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 Harrison County, TX
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
Furrh 542-203-01659OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-203-0111642-203-01116Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-3179342-203-31793Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-3244542-203-32445Other statusOther type—
Well API 42-203-3514742-203-35147Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-8033342-203-80333Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-0102142-203-01021Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-3187742-203-31877Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-3261742-203-32617Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-3271842-203-32718Other statusGas—
Well API 42-203-0111042-203-01110Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-0128942-203-01289Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-0120842-203-01208Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-0120942-203-01209Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-3257342-203-32573Other statusGas—
Well API 42-203-0101542-203-01015Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-0102642-203-01026Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-0111242-203-01112Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-3514342-203-35143Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-0048142-203-00481Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-0070142-203-00701Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-0121042-203-01210Other statusOil—
Well API 42-203-3261542-203-32615Other statusGas—
Well API 42-203-0060242-203-00602OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-203-0191642-203-01916OrphanedOil—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 47 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 Harrison County, TX?

Harrison County, Texas has 47 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 5 documented orphans. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county.

How many orphaned wells are in Harrison County?

5 wells in Harrison County, Texas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 55th-highest count among Texas counties.

What share of wells in Harrison County are plugged?

0 of Harrison County's 47 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); Harrison County ranks 35th with 47.

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