COUNTIES · TEXAS GULF COAST · DISTRICT 03 · CODE 373
Polk County, Texas
Polk County has had no new drilling permits in the past 90 days; the most recent permit on record was issued February 6, 2026.
Prime Operating Company leads with 1 permit in the past 12 months, the only operator active in the county.
Median permitted depth over the past year is 9,512 ft (prior year: 8,000 ft); 0% of the past year's permits are horizontal.
The county has 42 active disposal and injection permits, with 6.2M barrels injected in the 12 months reported through June 2025.
1,281 drilling permits have been issued in Polk County since 1977.
1,281 permits on file since 1977 · last issued Feb 6, 2026
Email me new permitsAlso: every Polk 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
- 211
- operators, all time
WINDOWS ON THE RRC ISSUE DATE · COMPUTED NOV 9, 2026 · WHY ISSUE AND SEEN DATES DIFFER
Permits issued by month
LAST 120 MONTHS · BY ISSUE DATE
Last 12 months 1 · prior 12 5(-80%)
Top operators, last 12 months
By permits issued. Wells are the operator’s current inventory here from the RRC wellbore file.
| Operator | Permits | Wells |
|---|---|---|
| Prime Operating Company | 1 | 75 |
New entrants, last 12 months
Operators whose first permit in Polk County came in the last year. None.
Formations in completed wells
RRC WELLBORE FILE · ≥10 WELLS
Tops reported on completion filings for wells in Polk County. A well counts for every formation it reports, so this reads as the county's stratigraphic column. About tops →
In Polk County the Jackson is reported in 118 wells, median top 3,750 ft, highlighted below. Back to the formation →
| Formation | Wells | Permitted last 3 yrs | Median top, ft | P10–P90 |
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| Yegua | 353 | 11 | 4,700 | 3,350–5,345 |
| Wilcox | 282 | 2 | 6,898 | 5,916–8,138 |
| Austin Chalk | 141 | 0 | 13,666 | 12,300–14,120 |
| Jackson | 118 | 8 | 3,750 | 2,719–4,758 |
| Frio | 112 | 9 | 2,846 | 1,443–3,718 |
| Woodbine | 109 | 0 | 13,965 | 12,332–14,513 |
| Midway | 82 | 0 | 10,721 | 9,366–11,645 |
| Sparta | 75 | 3 | 6,280 | 5,804–7,060 |
| Vicksburg | 61 | 3 | 4,030 | 3,303–4,237 |
| Miocene (undifferentiated) | 58 | 2 | 1,770 | 1–3,002 |
| Queen City | 38 | 3 | 7,616 | 2,400–7,854 |
| Navarro | 34 | 0 | 12,310 | 10,985–12,696 |
| Catahoula | 29 | 1 | 2,700 | 1,964–3,158 |
| Anacacho | 24 | 0 | 12,626 | 12,014–13,214 |
| Taylor | 16 | 0 | 12,984 | 12,118–13,434 |
Beyond the permit record
RRC UIC permits · H-10 reported volumes
Disposal and injection
- 42
- active UIC permits of 112
- 223K
- permitted bbl/day, active
- 6.2M
- bbl injected, last 12 reported months
- Jun 2025
- reported through
Every active well, operator, and daily reporter in Polk County →
Permitted volume is a ceiling, not throughput. How to read it →
USGS catalog, Texas
Seismicity, last 2 years
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- M2+ events in the area
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 913208 | Feb 6, 2026 | Feb 6, 2026 | Prime Operating Company | Wing, Sarah F. #80 | 9,512 | 37330809 |
| 911077 | Oct 22, 2025 | Oct 22, 2025 | Arcadia Operating, LLC | Kirby West 'C' #3 | 8,000 | 37330620 |
| 908706 | Sep 10, 2025 | Sep 10, 2025 | H.E.R. Operating, LLC | Pixley #1 | 3,100 | 37330492 |
| 906463 | Mar 12, 2025 | Mar 12, 2025 | Arcadia Operating, LLC | Bull Run Unit #1 | 8,900 | 37331365 |
| 905664 | Feb 5, 2025 | Feb 5, 2025 | Arcadia Operating, LLC | Kirby Lumber Co. #5R | 5,000 | 37331330 |
| 904475 | Dec 16, 2024 | Dec 16, 2024 | Ventex Operating Corp. | Tomcat #1 | 12,000 | 37331364 |
| 904475Amendment | Dec 16, 2024 | Dec 16, 2024 | Ventex Operating Corp. | Tomcat #1 | 12,000 | 37331364 |
| 903221 | Oct 16, 2024 | Oct 16, 2024 | Prime Operating Company | Wing, Sarah F. #16 | 11,700 | 37331308 |
| 902731 | Sep 20, 2024 | Sep 20, 2024 | Arcadia Operating, LLC | Chevron #1 | 7,400 | 37331169 |
| 900931 | Aug 23, 2024 | Aug 23, 2024 | Square Mile Energy, L.L.C. | Hockley #2 | 9,560 | 37331315 |
Questions about Polk County
How many drilling permits were issued in Polk County in the last 12 months?
1 permit was issued in Polk County in the last 12 months, down 80% from 5 in the 12 months before. 0% were for horizontal wells. The most recent was issued Feb 6, 2026. 1,281 are on file since 1977.
Every Polk County permit →Who is the most active operator in Polk County?
By drilling permits filed in the last 12 months, Prime Operating Company is the most active operator in Polk County, with 1 of 1. 0 operators filed permits here in the last 90 days.
Operators in Polk County →How many oil and gas wells are in Polk County?
1,409 wells are on file in Polk County, including 271 active and 734 plugged. 73 are horizontal. The active wells are under 29 operators.
Every well in Polk County →How much oil and gas does Polk County produce?
The Railroad Commission files oil and gas production by lease, not by well or by county. Each lease with wells in Polk County is listed with its reported production on the county's Leases tab.
Leases in Polk County →How much water is injected in Polk County?
6.2 million barrels of water were injected in Polk County in the 12 months through June 2025, reported on form H-10. 42 of the county's 112 disposal and injection permits are active.
Disposal and injection in Polk County →What formations are drilled in Polk County?
Completion filings for wells in Polk County report tops for 15 formations in at least ten wells each. The most reported are the Yegua (353 wells, median top 4,700 ft), the Wilcox (282 wells, median top 6,898 ft), and the Austin Chalk (141 wells, median top 13,666 ft).
Formations in Polk County →What basin is Polk County in?
Petrora lists Polk County in the Texas Gulf Coast. It is in the Railroad Commission's District 03.
The Texas Gulf Coast →Have there been earthquakes in Polk County?
No earthquakes of magnitude 2 or more were located in the area of Polk County's permitted wells in the last 2 years.
Earthquakes in Polk County →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/polk?days=90, documented in the API reference.