The map shows a bustling East Texas, complete with hitchhikers, barbecue and shading that represents more than 10,000 oil wells.

KILGORE, Texas (KLTV) - The upcoming film “Miracle in East Texas” tells the true story of the discovery of the Kilgore oil field. It stood for decades as the largest oil discovery in the world. The ...

Eventually, the con catches up with Doc Boyd and Dad Everett when they accidentally strike oil in East Texas. Their wells tapped into part of the largest oil field in the contiguous United States.

For one, the East Texas Oil Field remains the largest ever in the continental United States, encompassing parts of five Texas counties, particularly Gregg and Rusk Counties.

A huge oil field tank fire in Shelby County is now contained after towering flames and black smoke were caught on camera.

Fake snow and Christmas music filled the air, hiding from pictures that it was, in fact, 62 degrees outside. Rudolph isn’t just a symbol of holiday cheer in this East Texas town of 34,000 people.

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) -Oil prices crashed Monday as the price for a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude fell to 37 dollars below zero, sending shockwaves through East Texas. Experts say a ...

The East Texas Oil Field, stretching some 45 miles long and five miles across, quickly attracted thousands of drillers and sprouted forests of oil derricks.

The legendary East Texas oil field, upon whose bounty this and other nearby towns have relied for more than half a century, is running dry. Article continues below this ad ...

East Texas Prorated Oil again flowed last week from some 1,800 wells in the great sprawling East Texas field. It did not gush immoderately but poured out in a legally limited stream. After 19 days ...

In the middle of the Great Depression, most of East Texas hit hard times when King Cotton became a pauper. Then in 1930, the vast East Texas Oil Field was discovered. Kilgore was near the heart of ...

LINN signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire oil and natural gas properties located in the East Texas Oil Field in Gregg and Rusk Counties for a contract price of $95 million, subject to ...