East Texas Oil Field
The East Texas Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in east Texas. Covering 140,000 acres and parts of five counties, and having 30,340 historic and active oil wells, it is the second-largest oil field in the United States outside Alaska, and first in total volume of oil recovered since its discovery in 1930.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Region
- Description: oil and gas field in east Texas
- Also known as: “East Texas Oil Fields”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Driller Park.
Driller Park
Stadium
Driller Park was originally a minor league baseball stadium in Kilgore, Texas, US, constructed in 1947 for the Kilgore Drillers and refurbished in 2008 for the East Texas Pump Jacks of the Texas Collegiate League.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilgore and Liberty City.
Kilgore
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Kilgore is in the Central Piney Woods region of East Texas. Home to slightly less than 14,000 residents, Kilgore is often identified as the "Oil Capital of East Texas", due to its proximity near the center of the vast East Texas Oilfield.
Liberty City
Village
Liberty City is a census-designated place in Gregg County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,721 at the 2020 census, an increase over the figure of 2,351 tabulated in 2010.
Downtown Kilgore
Neighborhood
Kilgore is a city in the Gregg and Rusk counties in Texas, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 13,376. It is located where Interstate 20 and US 259 converge south of the Sabine River.
East Texas Oil Field
- Categories: giant oil and gas field and locality
- Location: Gregg, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
32.4166° or 32° 24′ 60″ northLongitude
-94.8802° or 94° 52′ 49″ westOpen location code
8647C489+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 12893453105OpenStreetMap feature
place=regionWikidata ID
Q2044903
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“East Texas Oil Field” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “East Texas Oil Field”
- Chinese: “德克萨斯州东部”
- Chinese: “德克薩斯州东部”
- Chinese: “德克薩斯州東部”
- Dutch: “Oost-Texasveld”
- French: “East Texas”
- Japanese: “東テキサス油田”
- Persian: “میدان نفتی شرق تگزاس”
- Russian: “Ист-Тексас”
- Ukrainian: “Іст-Тексас”
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