GLO survey abstract · Rains County, Texas
A-16 is a GLO survey abstract in Rains County, Texas - granted to BIRDWELL, T G - ~700 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.
| Oil Gas & Mineral Lease | 120 | 26% |
| Warranty Deed | 77 | 17% |
| Oil & Gas Lease | 72 | 16% |
| Assign Ogl | 72 | 16% |
| Release Of Lease | 35 | 8% |
| Mineral Deed | 35 | 8% |
| Deed Of Trust | 27 | 6% |
| Pd Ogml | 23 | 5% |
Original grantee
Located and patented through one of the Texas certificate programs, the T G Birdwell survey is the root of every later deed, lease, and severance that touches this Rains County acreage. The GLO indexes it as Nacogdoches 3rd file 000398. with the patent issued to Birdwell, Thomas G. Title work on the T G Birdwell acreage stitches every later instrument back to the GLO patent on file.
Oil & gas activity
No recent leasing or permitting activity on A-16 in the last five years, though the abstract carries 2 historical drilling permits (last in 2002). 3 wells sit on the polygon, 2 plugged and abandoned, 1 in other status, operated by SPENCE ENERGY, ELDORADO OIL & GAS INC.
Source authority
Texas General Land Office (GLO) holds the patent record for every original survey abstract in Texas, including A-16. 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.