The sinkhole, which is so wide and deep that it could comfortably contain a four-story building, is feared to still be ...

The Kelton Ranch is a few miles outside McCamey in rural Upton County. McCamey is one of countless Texas towns formed in an ...

Abandoned and orphaned oil wells in West Texas are causing costly environmental hazards like sinkholes and leaks, prompting ...

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A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas. Radford Grocery #17 was ...

Near the area of the sinkhole, according to Newsweek, a family known as the Kelton Family is unable to use a well as a water ...

The rapidly-growing sinkhole in Upton County is the latest of many problems caused by old wells in the Permian Basin. A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the ...

“The Texas Railroad Commission needs to do an assessment ... confer in a remote area of the Kelton Ranch near McCamey at the site of a giant sinkhole that dates to 1973. (Bob Campbell|Odessa ...

A sinkhole in Upton County formed around an oil well that was plugged in the 1970s. The property owners and visitors stand on the edge of the sinkhole's far side. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside ...