COUNTIES · BARNETT SHALE AND NORTH TEXAS · DISTRICT 09 · CODE 275
Knox County
Knox County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued June 16, 2026.
Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. leads with 5 permits in the past 12 months, one of 3 operators active in the county.
2 operators filed a first Knox County permit in the past year.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 6,500 ft (prior year: 400 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 44 active disposal and injection permits, with 1.49M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,960 drilling permits have been issued in Knox County since 1977.
1,960 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Jun 16, 2026
Watch Knox CountyAlso: every Knox 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 (2)
- 0
- operators filing
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- horizontal
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- avg permitted depth, ft
- 397
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED OCT 29, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 52 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 23 · prior 12 18(+28%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. | 5 | 1 |
| Double M Petroproperties, Inc. | 1 | 6 |
| Chisholm Operating, Inc. | 1 | 0 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Knox County came in the last year. 2 in total.
- Waggoner Operating, L.L.C.5 permitsNov 25, 2025 · active elsewhere first
- Chisholm Operating, Inc.1 permitMar 12, 2026 · active elsewhere first
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Knox 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 Knox County report the Des Moines, so it is below this table's cutoff. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tannehill | 305 | 5 | 2,097 | 1,694–2,548 |
| Coleman Junction | 130 | 7 | 1,512 | 1,152–1,997 |
| Strawn | 64 | 2 | 4,873 | 4,594–5,182 |
| Caddo | 32 | 2 | 5,718 | 5,581–5,974 |
| Canyon | 30 | 2 | 3,842 | 3,609–4,316 |
| Palo Pinto | 18 | 1 | 4,196 | 4,150–4,399 |
| Saddle Creek | 18 | 4 | 2,426 | 2,006–2,682 |
| Cisco | 15 | 2 | 2,825 | 2,068–3,360 |
| Bend | 14 | 1 | 5,952 | 5,733–6,175 |
| Mississippian | 13 | 0 | 6,077 | 4,850–6,315 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 44
- active UIC permits of 484
- 57.4K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 1.49M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Knox 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 916403 | Jun 16, 2026 | Jun 16, 2026 | Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. | Waggoner Swwi #421SW | 9,000 | 27532394 |
| 916403 | Jun 16, 2026 | Jun 16, 2026 | Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. | Waggoner Swwi #421SW | 6,500 | 27532394 |
| 913883 | Mar 12, 2026 | Mar 12, 2026 | Chisholm Operating, Inc. | Beavers #1 | 5,933 | 27500649 |
| 912510 | Jan 7, 2026 | Jan 7, 2026 | Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. | Waggoner Swwf #101SW | 6,500 | 27532393 |
| 911983 | Dec 3, 2025 | Dec 3, 2025 | Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. | Waggoner Swwd #341SW | 6,500 | 27532392 |
| 911958 | Nov 25, 2025 | Nov 25, 2025 | Waggoner Operating, L.L.C. | Waggoner Swed #71SW | 6,500 | 27532391 |
| 911639 | Nov 7, 2025 | Nov 7, 2025 | Double M Petroproperties, Inc. | Brown, Williams et AL #1 | 7,000 | 27532390 |
| 908766 | Jul 1, 2025 | Jul 1, 2025 | Energy Transfer Company | TP 16.5 #1 | 400 | 27532389 |
| 908780 | Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | Energy Transfer Company | TP 17C #1 | 400 | 27532387 |
| 908779 | Jun 25, 2025 | Jun 25, 2025 | Energy Transfer Company | TP 17.45 #1 | 400 | 27532386 |
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/knox?days=90, documented in the API reference.