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First Producing Oil Well in Coke County |
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Silver,
TX,
USA
Latitude & Longitude:
32° 4' 14.33982",
-100° 39' 53.0024000004"
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Texas State
Historical Marker |
Sun Oil Company's well - No. 1 Allen Jameson -- was staked in Sept. 1946, and struck oil Nov. 17. Intermittent drilling had gone on in Coke County for 30 years, but this discovery began a county-wide oil boom. Drilled by the Dallas firm of Roberts & Hawkins, the well hit pay dirt at 6,230 feet in fossil-bearing limestone 280 million years old. In a 24-hour test it flowed 168 barrels. Coke County recently ranked among the top quarter of oil-producing counties in Texas, with its 18 fields exceeding 6.4 million barrels annually. (1968)
This page last updated: 7/15/2008 |
First Producing Oil Well Historical Marker Location Map, Coke County Historical Marker Location Map, Texas
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