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Oil & gas wells in Wilson County, TX

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

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Wilson County, Texas has 116 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 52 documented orphans. It ranks 10th 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

116

Active

0

Plugged

0

Documented orphans

52

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 Wilson County?

0% of Wilson County's wells are active, 35 percentage points below the Texas share of 35%. 0% are plugged & abandoned, against 42% statewide and 47% nationally. 52 wells (45%) are documented orphans with no operator able to plug them, compared with 0.9% across Texas and 4% nationally. The remaining 64 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Wilson County?

By product class, 88 of the county's wells (76%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 8 (7%) 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 Wilson County compare with other Texas counties?

Wilson County has the 10th-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 10th in Texas.

Who operates wells in Wilson 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 Wilson County, TX
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
Shedrock Walter 242-493-31918OrphanedOther type—
Shedrock Walter 342-493-31999OrphanedOther type—
Shedrock Walter 142-493-31856OrphanedOther type—
Hastings W. C. Jr. 1a42-493-00819OrphanedOther type—
Laskowski Anton 142-493-30085OrphanedOther type—
Scull C. E. 1442-493-31941OrphanedOther type—
Bates Hubert L. 2r42-493-31732OrphanedOther type—
Well API 42-493-3052542-493-30525Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-3163042-493-31630Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-3245442-493-32454Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-0199542-493-01995OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-493-3062242-493-30622OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-493-3061742-493-30617Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-3103942-493-31039Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-3151942-493-31519Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-0054342-493-00543OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-493-0199642-493-01996OrphanedOil—
Well API 42-493-3045442-493-30454Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-3047542-493-30475Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-3052642-493-30526Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-3053842-493-30538Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-3054742-493-30547Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-3056842-493-30568Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-3058942-493-30589Other statusOil—
Well API 42-493-3059642-493-30596Other statusOil—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 116 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 Wilson County, TX?

Wilson County, Texas has 116 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active, 0 plugged and 52 documented orphans. Texas county counts cover only wells whose source record names the county.

How many orphaned wells are in Wilson County?

52 wells in Wilson County, Texas are documented orphans — unplugged with no solvent operator of record, the 10th-highest count among Texas counties.

What share of wells in Wilson County are plugged?

0 of Wilson County's 116 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); Wilson County ranks 10th with 116.

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