GLO survey abstract · Rains County, Texas
A-12 is a GLO survey abstract in Rains County, Texas - granted to BURKE, S - ~820 acres. The polygon below is the real survey boundary. Estimated instruments, leases, wells, and ownership stats are scoped to this abstract; the Foundation workbook stitches every record back to patent.
Activity profile
Aggregated from the Texas clerk-of-records instruments table. Counts are real document counts on this abstract, not estimates.
| Warranty Deed | 150 | 21% |
| Deed Of Trust | 117 | 17% |
| Oil Gas & Mineral Lease | 101 | 14% |
| Assign Ogl | 82 | 12% |
| Oil & Gas Lease | 76 | 11% |
| Warranty Deed W/Vendors Lien | 75 | 11% |
| Rel Ln | 58 | 8% |
| Release Of Lease | 45 | 6% |
Original grantee
Texas converted thousands of settlement, service, and purchase certificates into title between the Republic period and the post-Civil War years, and the S Burke survey is one of them. The GLO indexes it as Nacogdoches 1st file 000560. The GLO patent file remains the controlling root document for any chain of title that runs through S Burke.
Oil & gas activity
No recent leasing or permitting activity on A-12 in the last five years, though the abstract carries 2 historical drilling permits (last in 2008). 7 wells sit on the polygon, 1 active or permitted, 2 plugged and abandoned, 4 in other status, operated by VALENCE OPERATING, PAN AMERICAN PETROLUEM, PAN AM.
Source authority
Texas General Land Office (GLO) holds the patent record for every original survey abstract in Texas, including A-12. The Rains County clerk's abstract index, every CAD parcel reference, and every lease ever recorded on this tract trace back to the GLO patent.
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Surrounding abstracts
Six spatially-nearest GLO abstracts. Useful when you're scoping a contiguous tract or following a chain across survey lines.