Editing Ranger, Texas (section)

==History==
The Texas Pacific Coal Company of [[Thurber, Texas|Thurber]] drilled a gas well north of Ranger in August 1917, after town civic leaders offered acreage in return for four test wells.  Then on  October 11, 1917, the [[Ranger Oil Boom|McClesky well, one mile southwest of Ranger]], produced oil at 1200 [[BOPD]].  Production came from the [[Strawn Formation]] [[sandstone]]s at {{convert|1300|to|2000|ft|m}}, the Smithwick [[Shale]], and the [[Marble Falls Formation]] [[limestone]] at {{convert|3200|to|3400|ft|m}} feet. The Ranger Oil Field production peaked in July 1919 at 80,000 BOPD.  The [[oil boom]] brought many seeking jobs, including farm boys and demobilized veterans.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Reeves |first1=Frank |title=GEOLOGY OF THE RANGER OIL FIELD, TEXAS, in Contributions to Economic Geology, Part II |url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/0736e/report.pdf |publisher=USGS |access-date=22 August 2020 |pages=111–170 |date=1922}}</ref><ref name=oo>{{cite book |last1=Olien |first1=Diana |last2=Olien |first2=Roger |title=Oil in Texas, The Gusher Age, 1895-1945 |date=2002 |publisher=University of Texas Press |location=Austin |isbn=0292760566 |pages=79–83}}</ref>