COUNTIES · EAST TEXAS · DISTRICT 06 · CODE 073
Cherokee County
Cherokee County permitting is running 0.3 permits a month over the trailing 90 days (1 total, versus 3 in the prior quarter).
Caturus Energy, LLC leads with 3 permits in the past 12 months, one of 5 operators active in the county.
4 operators filed a first Cherokee County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 13,658 ft (prior year: 9,000 ft); 13% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 20 active disposal and injection permits, with 7.47M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
TexNet located 1 earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more in the county's permit footprint over the past two years, the largest M3.5.
1,718 drilling permits have been issued in Cherokee County since 1977.
1,718 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Aug 26, 2026
Watch Cherokee CountyAlso: every Cherokee County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
- 1
- permits issued, 90d
- -67%
- vs prior 90d (3)
- 1
- operators filing
- 0%
- horizontal
- 11,000
- avg permitted depth, ft
- 297
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 45 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 28 · prior 12 22(+27%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Caturus Energy, LLC | 3 | 0 |
| Faulconer Energy, LLC | 2 | 29 |
| Wmo Oil, LLC | 1 | 5 |
| Maximus Operating, Ltd. | 1 | 1 |
| Neches Bend Resources, LLC | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Cherokee County came in the last year. 4 in total.
- Caturus Energy, LLC3 permitsApr 21, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Faulconer Energy, LLC2 permitsMar 10, 2026 · active elsewhere first
- Neches Bend Resources, LLC1 permitAug 26, 2026 · new to Texas permits
- Wmo Oil, LLC1 permitJun 3, 2026 · new to Texas permits
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Cherokee County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Cherokee County the Austin Chalk is reported in 139 wells, median top 4,463 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pettit | 506 | 6 | 9,406 | 8,209–9,939 |
| James Lime | 456 | 8 | 9,172 | 8,137–9,720 |
| Travis Peak | 452 | 6 | 9,860 | 8,463–10,561 |
| Rodessa | 339 | 7 | 8,627 | 7,580–9,114 |
| Woodbine | 273 | 6 | 4,648 | 4,100–5,310 |
| Glen Rose | 141 | 7 | 6,578 | 5,808–7,914 |
| Austin Chalk | 139 | 0 | 4,463 | 4,134–5,584 |
| Paluxy | 120 | 6 | 5,856 | 5,230–6,920 |
| BMA | 96 | 0 | 8,730 | 7,653–9,029 |
| Nacatoch | 66 | 5 | 2,812 | 2,350–3,594 |
| Pecan Gap | 65 | 0 | 3,351 | 3,174–4,038 |
| Cotton Valley | 63 | 4 | 10,610 | 10,271–11,533 |
| Taylor | 59 | 1 | 11,339 | 3,708–12,244 |
| Massive Anhydrite (marker) | 57 | 2 | 7,970 | 7,264–8,720 |
| Buda | 51 | 0 | 5,730 | 4,740–6,130 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 20
- active UIC permits of 72
- 340K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 7.47M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Cherokee County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
- 1
- M2+ events in the area
- M3.5
- largest
Monthly counts, magnitudes, and every recent event in the area →
Events are not tagged with a county; this counts M2+ events inside the bounding box of the county’s located permits, padded 0.1°. About TexNet →
Latest permits
NEWEST FIRST BY ISSUE DATE
| Permit | Seen | Issued | Operator | Lease / well | Depth | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 918196 | Aug 28, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 | Neches Bend Resources, LLC | Blackwell 13 #1 | 11,000 | 07331600 |
| 916574 | Jun 23, 2026 | Jun 23, 2026 | Faulconer Energy, LLC | Barnes 3 #1 | 12,315 | 07331151 |
| 911304 | Jun 12, 2026 | Jun 12, 2026 | Maximus Operating, Ltd. | Vallier-Sessions #1HH | 15,000 | 07331589 |
| 916072 | Jun 3, 2026 | Jun 3, 2026 | Wmo Oil, LLC | Mina #7 | 5,000 | 07331599 |
| 914940 | Oct 1, 2026 | Apr 21, 2026 | Caturus Energy, LLC | Megalodon #1 | 21,750 | 07331598 |
| 914940 | Apr 21, 2026 | Apr 21, 2026 | Caturus Energy, LLC | Megalodon #1 | 17,500 | 07331598 |
| 914940 | Apr 21, 2026 | Apr 21, 2026 | Caturus Energy, LLC | Megalodon #1 | 19,000 | 07331598 |
| 913901 | Mar 10, 2026 | Mar 10, 2026 | Faulconer Energy, LLC | Rucker 1 #1 | 8,572 | 07330527 |
| 911232 | Oct 24, 2025 | Oct 24, 2025 | Jamex, Inc. | Frankston #1HH | 9,000 | 07331597 |
| 911232 | Oct 24, 2025 | Oct 24, 2025 | Jamex, Inc. | Frankston #1HH | 9,000 | 07331597 |
About this data
Drilling permits from the RRC OGA049M master and daily daf420 files, rebuilt nightly into per-county figures; windows are on the date issued. Disposal from UIC permits and H-10 reports at the last settled month; earthquakes from the TexNet catalog inside the county's located-permit footprint.
Developers: this page as JSON is GET /v1/data/counties/tx/cherokee?days=90, documented in the API reference.