• Search options in the Search By panel
• Searcy by latitude and longitude

Search by Panel

The Search By panel provides options to search for wells by wellbore API number, Railroad Commission oil lease number or gas ID number, or to search for surveys by abstract number or survey name. It also allows you to search for a specific place.

Wellbore API Number Search

This function is used to search for a well by the wellbore API Number.

1. Enter the three-digit county code followed by the five-digit unique number. (235-32803 is entered in the example below.)

2. Click GO. The wellbore associated with that number, if found in the system, will be displayed in the center of the map.

3. At this point, you can select Identify Wells from the Click Map To... dropdown list and click on the well in the map to view the attributes.

Lease/ID Search

When the Lease/ID button is selected, the Lease Search screen is displayed. Use this screen to locate wells by Railroad Commission oil lease number or gas ID number.

1. Enter the five-digit oil lease number or six-digit gas ID number. Then select the Railroad Commission District number from the dropdown list (optional). Lease number 12345 is entered the example below.

2. Click the Search button.
3. A list of wells matching the criteria you entered is displayed. Information in the list includes the API number, county, district number, well number, and type well. Type well indicates the source of the data records as either the OIL or GAS proration schedule.

The results of the Lease/ID search are sorted by API number.

4. To display a well from the list in the map view, click the MAP button beside the well record. API 049-30434 was selected for the map display shown below. The map returns with that well displayed in the center.

The Lease/ID search queries data that is stored outside the Geographic Information System (GIS) and the results may list API numbers not yet identified in the GIS. If this happens, the following message will appear:

Survey/Abstract Search

When the Survey/Abstract button is selected, the Survey Search screen is displayed. Use this screen to search for a particular survey and then display all the wells within that survey.

1. There are five different criteria by which you can search. County is required. The abstract number along with the selected county is sufficient information to perform the search. If the abstract number is unknown, then using one or more of the other search criteria will help to narrow the search and return fewer records. Other search criteria are: Survey Name (see Survey Name Abbreviations), Block, and Section/Survey Number.

Hints:

• Entering the first letter of a survey name will return a list of surveys beginning with that letter (limited to the first 300 matches).
• Entering a portion of the survey name will help to narrow the search.
• You can use the percent sign (%) as a wildcard to perform searches. For example, selecting Austin County and entering the survey name as %AB will return a list of the following surveys:

  A-115 ABBOTT, L
  A-13 BABBIT, B
  A-79 RABB, J 17
  A-80 RABB, J 18

2. Click the Search button.
3. A list of all surveys matching the criteria you entered is displayed. To display that survey on the map, click the Map button. The map returns with that survey displayed in the center. The results of the survey search are sorted in the following order:
   • County Code
   • Abstract Number
   • Survey Name
   • Block
   • Section/Survey Number
4. At this point you can click Identify Surveys and display the attributes.

Note: Some searches may result in a very large number of records. Due to system limitations, only the first 300 search results can be shown in the table. Searching by County only can result in search results well over 300 records. It is recommended that you narrow the search by entering more search criteria.

Search for Specific Places

The Places button in the Search By panel provides the capability to search for communities that may not be incorporated. In other words, these communities are not in the City Limits GIS layer provided by TXDOT, but they are in the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database created by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). This GNIS database also contains other categories such as schools, cemeteries, airports, and other features typically found on USGS maps.

To search for a specific community or other location:

1. Click the Places button in the Search By panel. The Places Search screen is displayed.

2. If you know the name of the place, enter that in the Place Name Field and select the Search button.
3. If that search returns too many options, you can narrow the search by selecting a County and/or Category by which to filter.
4. The viewer will display all locations that match the search criteria in the Places Search screen. To view that location on the map, click the Map option.

That location will be in the center of the map, marked by it's name and a small "flag" () symbol.

Note: The Search Places screen contains a link to the section of the USGS website that describes the GNIS database.

Pipeline Queries

The Pipeline Queries screen allows you to find pipelines on the GIS viewer by entering a variety of search criteria such as County, Commodity, System Type, T4 Number, and P5 Number. The results of the query will be those pipelines that match all of the criteria entered.

To search for a single pipeline or pipelines of the same type:

1. Click on the Pipelines button in the Search panel. The Pipeline Search/Filter screen appears.
2. Enter or select any combination of pipeline attributes for the query. NOTE: The Filter feature (described below) is limited to one county. If you plan to use this feature do not do a Statewide search.
3. Click the Query button. The results are displayed in the screen.

After the query results are displayed, select the Set Display Filter button. The system will display the map view showing the county that was queried. The queried pipeline(s) will appear in red. Other pipelines are green. You may turn off the non-queried pipelines by clicking off the Pipelines selection in the Display panel of the map viewer.

To cancel the filter showing the queried pipelines, click the Cancel Filter button in the query page.

View and Search by Latitude and Longitude Coordinates

The latitude and longitude is dipslayed in the lower right of the GIS Viewer. It shows the coordinates of the location of the mouse pointer. As you move the mouse pointer around the map, you can see the latitude and longitude change.

Besides viewing the current latitude and longitude coordinates, you can also enter specific coordinates into those fields and zoom automatically to that spot.

1. Enter the coordinates in the Long. and Lat. fields.
2. Click the Go button.

The viewer will zoom to that location on the map with the longitude and latitude displayed next to a "+" symbol.

Coordinate Information: The GIS data is stored and displayed on a Lambert Conformal Conic Projection based on North American Datum 1927. The latitude/longitude coordinates are in Decimal Degree units and are based on North American Datum 1927.