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Oil & gas wells in Scurry County, TX

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

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Scurry County, Texas has 65 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 11 documented orphans. It ranks 25th 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

65

Active

0

Plugged

0

Documented orphans

11

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 Scurry County?

0% of Scurry County's wells are active, 35 percentage points below the Texas share of 35%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 42% statewide and 47% nationally. 11 wells (17%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.9% across Texas and 4% nationally. The remaining 54 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Scurry County?

By product class, 58 of the county's wells (89%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 5 (8%) 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 Scurry County compare with other Texas counties?

Scurry County has the 25th-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 44th in Texas.

Who operates wells in Scurry 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 Scurry County, TX
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
Well API 42-415-3146642-415-31466Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-3371042-415-33710Other statusInjection—
Well API 42-415-0364042-415-03640Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0414042-415-04140Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0415342-415-04153OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-415-0364442-415-03644Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0413742-415-04137Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-3226542-415-32265Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0481542-415-04815OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-415-3153842-415-31538Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-3447742-415-34477Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-3266942-415-32669Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0364242-415-03642Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0443142-415-04431Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0363642-415-03636Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0413942-415-04139Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0121442-415-01214Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0361942-415-03619Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0363742-415-03637Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-1040242-415-10402OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-415-3049442-415-30494OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-415-0356842-415-03568Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0415442-415-04154Other statusInjection—
Well API 42-415-3441842-415-34418Other statusOil—
Well API 42-415-0320642-415-03206OrphanedOil—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 65 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 Scurry County, TX?

Scurry County, Texas has 65 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 11 documented orphans. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county.

How many orphaned wells are in Scurry County?

11 wells in Scurry County, Texas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 44th-highest count among Texas counties.

What share of wells in Scurry County are plugged?

0 of Scurry County's 65 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); Scurry County ranks 25th with 65.

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