Kilgore, Texas, rose from a small rail town to oil boom fame as the Oil Capital of Texas and the World’s Richest Acre, with stars on downtown oil derricks still lighting the skyline.
An assessment by the United States Geological Survey has found that Texas could be sitting atop 20 billion barrels of oil, 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids, and 16 trillion cubic feet of associated natural gas.