4 mi. NE of Wapanucka, Wapanucka, Oklahoma. County/parish: Atoka.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 13, 1972. NRIS 72001053.
1 contributing site.Also known as:
The First Oil Well in Oklahoma was drilled in 1885 in Atoka County, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, though it was not completed until 1888.
The First Oil Well in Oklahoma (also known as Old Faucett Well) is a historic oil well site near the present Wapanucka, Johnston County, Oklahoma. It was drilled by Dr. H.W. Faucett, who started work in 1885 on Choctaw land for the Choctaw Oil and Refining Company, but the 1,414-foot (431 m) well was not completed until 1888. A small amount of oil and gas was produced, but not in commercially usable quantity. The well was abandoned after Faucett fell ill and died later in 1888. The first commercially productive well in Indian Territory was the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 well near Bartlesville, Oklahoma (then in the Cherokee Nation), drilled in 1897.
The well was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1972. The capped well casing is the well's only remnant.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/86510676