COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 217
Hill County
Hill County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued May 19, 2025.
The county has 2 active disposal and injection permits, with 552K barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
703 drilling permits have been issued in Hill County since 1977.
703 permits on file since 1977 · last issued May 19, 2025
Watch Hill CountyAlso: every Hill County well in the statewide list, searchable → · a year of permits on the map →
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- permits issued, 90d
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- vs prior 90d (0)
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- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
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- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 5 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 7
Operators by well inventory
No permits in the last year; ranked by wells on the RRC wellbore file instead.
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Hill County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Hill County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
Fewer than ten wells in Hill County report the Hood, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| Barnett | 260 | 0 | 8,084 | 7,253–8,532 |
| Marble Falls | 192 | 0 | 7,770 | 6,702–8,252 |
| Atoka | 117 | 0 | 4,506 | 3,193–6,982 |
| Strawn | 84 | 0 | 1,694 | 1,590–2,485 |
| Bend | 50 | 0 | 6,393 | 4,575–7,346 |
| Morrow | 30 | 0 | 7,961 | 7,011–8,467 |
| Base Cretaceous (marker) | 26 | 0 | 1,650 | 1,425–1,675 |
| Austin Chalk | 18 | 0 | 626 | 572–698 |
| Big Saline | 18 | 0 | 7,388 | 7,230–7,582 |
| Ellenburger | 13 | 0 | 8,201 | 7,500–8,672 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
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- active UIC permits of 11
- 50K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 552K
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Hill County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
TexNet catalog via USGS
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- M2+ events in the area
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- 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 |
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| 907684 | May 19, 2025 | May 19, 2025 | Atmos Energy Corp., Mid-Tex Div. | L-32 #32 | 500 | 21730773 |
| 907684 | May 19, 2025 | May 19, 2025 | Atmos Pipeline - Texas | L-32 #32 | 500 | 21730773 |
| 878638 | Apr 1, 2022 | Apr 1, 2022 | Walker Operating Company | Maass #2 | 2,450 | 21730772 |
| 878637 | Apr 1, 2022 | Apr 1, 2022 | Walker Operating Company | Maass #1 | 2,450 | 21730771 |
| 864430 | Jul 29, 2020 | Jul 29, 2020 | Ephraim Trust | E. Stuckly #1 | 1,000 | 21730770 |
| 842851 | Jul 27, 2018 | Jul 27, 2018 | Energy Transfer Company | Etc MP 297.0 #1 | 600 | 21730769 |
| 833039 | Nov 16, 2017 | Nov 16, 2017 | Energy Transfer Company | Etc MD 294.9 #1 | 500 | 21730768 |
| 791100 | Sep 23, 2014 | Sep 23, 2014 | Bluestone Natural Res. II, LLC | Alma Unit #2HH | 8,400 | 21730766 |
| 791084 | Sep 23, 2014 | Sep 23, 2014 | Bluestone Natural Res. II, LLC | Brooks Unit #2HH | 8,700 | 21730767 |
| 704192 | Oct 26, 2010 | Oct 26, 2010 | Quicksilver Resources Inc. | Shelby Land Ltd Unit #1HH | 9,000 | 21730765 |
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/hill?days=90, documented in the API reference.