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The East Texas Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in east Texas. Covering 140,000 acres (57,000 ha) 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. [ 1 ]
A Brief History of the East Texas Oil Field (East Texas Oil Museum) Oil and Texas: A Cultural History (Texas Almanac) Oil Boom (The Depot Museum, Henderson) Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum; Texas Energy Museum, Beaumont "Santa Rita No. 1 – Big Lake ~ Marker Number: 4587". Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Texas Historical Commission. 1965.
The Woodbine Group is a geological formation in east Texas whose strata date back to the Early to Middle Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous. [1] It is the producing formation of the giant East Texas Oil Field (also known as the "Black Giant") from which over 5.42 billion barrels of oil have been produced. [3]
Mar. 30—The East Texas Oil Museum at Kilgore College is featuring an exhibit with photographs and interviews of women in the U.S. Senate. The photos are by Melina Mara, who began photographing ...
In 2012, Brown began work on a new documentary about the east Texas oil field discovery and its eventual role in the New London School disaster. The film, Shadow Across The Path, was released in 2017, and features excerpts from an interview that Brown conducted with Walter Cronkite in his New York office at CBS. The New London school explosion ...
The East Texas Oil Field, discovered in 1930, became crucial for supplying oil, which was vital for military operations. This led to Kilgore's rapid growth as it became one of the most significant oil-producing areas in the country, contributing to the Allied war effort by providing a reliable fuel source for vehicles and machinery [ 17 ]
Rusk is one of the five counties that are part of the East Texas Oil Field, whose production has been a major part of the economy since that time. [6] Rusk County was one of 25 entirely dry counties in Texas until January 2012. The city of Henderson at that time opted to allow selling and serving beer and wine. [7]
Banks made loans to develop the oil fields, and Dallas became the financial center for all oil fields in the Texas Panhandle, the Permian Basin, East Texas, Gulf Coast, and Oklahoma. [1] This put off most thoughts of depression until the middle of 1931, when falling prices and overproduction affected the city economy negatively.