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Oil & gas wells in Young County, TX

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

Dataset updated . Derived from public data sources.

At a glance

Young County, Texas has 79 catalogued oil & gas wells: 0 active (0%), 0 plugged & abandoned (0%) and 0 documented orphans. It ranks 21st 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

79

Active

0

Plugged

0

Documented orphans

0

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 Young County?

0% of Young 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 Young County; Texas as a whole has 8,998. The remaining 79 carry status codes outside those classes, such as permitted or cancelled locations.

What kinds of wells are in Young County?

By product class, 66 of the county's wells (84%) are oil wells, 0 (0%) gas wells and 4 (5%) 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 Young County compare with other Texas counties?

Young County has the 21st-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 Young 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 Young County, TX
WellAPI # / state IDStatusTypeOperator
Well API 42-503-3493542-503-34935Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3555442-503-35554Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3770942-503-37709Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-4136542-503-41365Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-4242942-503-42429Other statusOther type—
Well API 42-503-3024942-503-30249Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3410442-503-34104Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3753242-503-37532Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3770842-503-37708Other statusInjection—
Well API 42-503-3258842-503-32588Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3757542-503-37575Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-4226142-503-42261Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-4226342-503-42263Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-0337042-503-03370Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3261042-503-32610Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3402142-503-34021Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3486942-503-34869Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3954942-503-39549Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-4021842-503-40218Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-0213342-503-02133Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-0336942-503-03369Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3799942-503-37999Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3840042-503-38400Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-4133842-503-41338Other statusOil—
Well API 42-503-3493342-503-34933Other statusInjection—

A sample of the county’s wells — every catalogued well has its own page. Browse all 79 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 Young County, TX?

Young County, Texas has 79 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 Young County?

No documented orphaned wells are currently recorded in Young County, Texas.

What share of wells in Young County are plugged?

0 of Young County's 79 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); Young County ranks 21st with 79.

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