Oil & gas wells in Palo Pinto County, TX
30 catalogued wells in Palo Pinto County, Texas, from the state regulator registry and the federal orphaned-well inventory.
Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.
At a glance
Palo Pinto County, Texas has 30 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 54th 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
30
Active
0
Plugged
0
Documented orphans
0
What is the status of oil and gas wells in Palo Pinto County?
0% of Palo Pinto County's wells are active, 35 percentage points below the Texas share of 35%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 42% statewide and 47% nationally. No documented orphaned wells are recorded in Palo Pinto County; Texas as a whole has 8,998. The remaining 30 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.
What kinds of wells are in Palo Pinto County?
By product class, 26 of the county's wells (87%) are oil wells, 1 (3%) gas wells and 3 (10%) 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 Palo Pinto County compare with other Texas counties?
Palo Pinto County has the 54th-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.
Who operates wells in Palo Pinto 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 Palo Pinto County
🔒 Create a free account to export CSV| Well | API # / state ID | Status | Type | Operator |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Well API 42-363-00063 | 42-363-00063 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-32775 | 42-363-32775 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33026 | 42-363-33026 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33386 | 42-363-33386 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33406 | 42-363-33406 | Other status | Injection | — |
| Well API 42-363-33493 | 42-363-33493 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33781 | 42-363-33781 | Other status | Injection | — |
| Well API 42-363-33785 | 42-363-33785 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33759 | 42-363-33759 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-34082 | 42-363-34082 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33861 | 42-363-33861 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-35172 | 42-363-35172 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33805 | 42-363-33805 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-31742 | 42-363-31742 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33764 | 42-363-33764 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-35447 | 42-363-35447 | Other status | Gas | — |
| Well API 42-363-33795 | 42-363-33795 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33864 | 42-363-33864 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33867 | 42-363-33867 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33874 | 42-363-33874 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33880 | 42-363-33880 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33891 | 42-363-33891 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33892 | 42-363-33892 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33895 | 42-363-33895 | Other status | Oil | — |
| Well API 42-363-33929 | 42-363-33929 | Other status | Oil | — |
A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 30 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 Palo Pinto County, TX?
Palo Pinto County, Texas has 30 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 0 documented orphans. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county.
How many orphaned wells are in Palo Pinto County?
No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Palo Pinto County, Texas.
What share of wells in Palo Pinto County are plugged?
0 of Palo Pinto County's 30 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); Palo Pinto County ranks 54th with 30.
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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 Palo Pinto County, Texas”, https://wellcensus.com/wells/texas/palo-pinto (data as of October 10, 2026).