Where this answer comes from.
Each of these has its own page naming the office that publishes it, how often it updates, and what it cannot answer. Rebuilt from the ParcelOps source directory on September 9, 2026.
CalGEM California Oil & Gas Wells
Wells near a California parcel, idle and orphan exposure, and the state review that can hold up a local building permit.
Colorado ECMC Oil & Gas Proximity
What sits near a Colorado parcel, over it, or is docketed to be drilled next door.
Texas RRC Operator Standing
Review Texas P-5 operator identity, status, and public financial-assurance evidence.
Where this stops.
The part a search result will not tell you, and the part worth reading before this answer goes into a decision.
- A plugged well is not an absent well. Plugging standards changed over the decades, and location accuracy on older wells can be off by more than a lot width.
- Mineral ownership, lease terms, and surface use agreements are recorded documents, and ParcelOps does not read them.
- Every other state publishes through its own regulator on its own terms, and those are not part of this answer.
What people ask next.
An orphaned well shows up on the parcel. What does that mean for me?
Orphaned means no solvent operator is responsible for it, which pushes plugging into a state program with a queue and a budget. For a buyer it means access obligations, possible surface disturbance later, and a question about whether a lender or an insurer will care. The record gives you the identifier and the status to ask the state agency with, which is where the plugging timeline actually lives.
Questions people ask alongside this one.
What census tract is this address in?
Federal program designations are published by census tract, not by address. How to resolve an address to its state, county, tract, and block codes, and why the vintage matters.
Is this property in a flood zone?
A flood zone answer is a letter read off a specific FEMA map panel with an effective date. What each zone means, and why outside a zone is not the same as safe.
Are there wetlands on this property?
The national wetlands inventory is a map layer compiled from imagery, not a jurisdictional determination. What the classification codes mean and where the layer stops.
Is this property in a wildfire risk area?
There is no national wildfire zone the way there is a flood zone. What the modeled risk metrics at a point actually describe, and what decides one house.
Is there a dam near this property?
Listed dams near a point with hazard class and condition rating. Hazard class describes consequence, not likelihood, and proximity to a dam is not inundation risk.
Have earthquakes been recorded near this site?
The published earthquake catalog around a coordinate, with magnitude, depth, and date. Why a quiet catalog is a statement about the instrument record, not about hazard.
The lanes this question belongs to.
A lane page lists every source that kind of work reads, not only the ones behind this question, and states where the whole lane stops.
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