GLO survey abstract · Rains County, Texas
A-225 is a GLO survey abstract in Rains County, Texas - granted to SP RR CO - ~290 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.
| Conveyance | 8 | 17% |
| Deed Of Trust | 7 | 15% |
| Warranty Deed | 6 | 13% |
| Oil Gas & Mineral Lease | 6 | 13% |
| P Rel Ovrriding Roy Int | 6 | 13% |
| Transfer Of Lien | 5 | 11% |
| Assig | 5 | 11% |
| Assign Ogl | 4 | 9% |
Original grantee
The SP RR CO survey name points to Southern Pacific railroad interests in Texas title records. Southern Pacific history in Texas is layered: the earlier Texas-chartered Southern Pacific was acquired into the Texas and Pacific story, while the later Southern Pacific system grew through Morgan and Texas and New Orleans interests. For County.Land, the key point is that this is a railroad grantee, not an individual settler. The patent connects public land, railroad expansion, corporate consolidation, and the durable survey labels still used in county records.
Other abstracts in this county with the same grantee: A-356 · A-355 · A-226 · A-322 · A-333
Oil & gas activity
No oil & gas leases or drilling permits intersect A-225 in our dated records.
Source authority
Texas General Land Office (GLO) holds the patent record for every original survey abstract in Texas, including A-225. 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.