GLO survey abstract · Rains County, Texas
A-181 is a GLO survey abstract in Rains County, Texas - granted to PARKER, W - ~900 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 | 277 | 47% |
| Warranty Deed | 80 | 14% |
| Deed Of Trust | 46 | 8% |
| Assign Ogl | 43 | 7% |
| Rel Ln | 39 | 7% |
| Oil & Gas Lease | 38 | 6% |
| Rel Lease | 38 | 6% |
| Warranty Deed W/Vendors Lien | 31 | 5% |
Original grantee
Filed in the GLO under the standard headright/bounty/donation framework, the W Parker survey is one of thousands of Anderson County patents that capture the moment Texas land policy turned settlement and service into title. The GLO indexes it as Houston 2nd file 000092. with the patent issued to Hannah, Jno & Jas. Every deed, lease, and conveyance in Anderson County that touches this acreage references back to this abstract.
Same grantee, other counties: Anderson County · A-613 · Anderson County · A-614
Other abstracts in this county with the same grantee: A-738
Oil & gas activity
No recent leasing or permitting activity on A-181 in the last five years, though the abstract carries 2 historical drilling permits (last in 1980). 3 wells sit on the polygon, 1 active or permitted, 2 plugged and abandoned, operated by SHELL OIL, PAN AMERICAN PETROLUEM.
Source authority
Texas General Land Office (GLO) holds the patent record for every original survey abstract in Texas, including A-181. 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.