History of The Petroleum Industry in The United States - Mid-Continent

Mid-Continent

The Mid-continent area is an area generally including Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, North Louisiana and the part of Texas away from the Gulf Coast. The first commercially successful oil well drilled in Kansas was the Norman No. 1 near Neodesha, Kansas, on November 28, 1892.

• Corsicana, Texas, 1894, Texas, plus 44,000,000 barrels (7,000,000 m3)
• McCamey, 1928, Baker No. 1., Texas.