GLO survey abstract · Rains County, Texas
A-217 is a GLO survey abstract in Rains County, Texas - granted to SHEPHERD, C - ~100 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.
| Deed Of Trust | 7 | 20% |
| Warranty Deed W/Vendors Lien | 6 | 17% |
| Caveat | 5 | 14% |
| Rel Ln | 4 | 11% |
| Warranty Deed | 4 | 11% |
| General Warranty Deed | 4 | 11% |
| Oil Gas & Mineral Lease | 3 | 9% |
| Assignment | 2 | 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 C Shepherd survey is one of them. Subsequent surface deeds, mineral severances, and lease records in Rains County rest on this original patent.
Oil & gas activity
No oil & gas leases or drilling permits intersect A-217 in our dated records.
Source authority
Texas General Land Office (GLO) holds the patent record for every original survey abstract in Texas, including A-217. 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.