GLO survey abstract · Rains County, Texas
A-31 is a GLO survey abstract in Rains County, Texas - granted to BBB&C RR CO - ~630 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 | 53 | 25% |
| Oil & Gas Lease | 31 | 15% |
| Warranty Deed | 31 | 15% |
| Assign Ogl | 29 | 14% |
| Deed Of Trust | 25 | 12% |
| Rel Ln | 16 | 8% |
| Warranty Deed W/Vendors Lien | 14 | 7% |
| Mineral Deed | 11 | 5% |
Original grantee
The BBB&C RR CO survey points to the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railway, the line that opened the railroad age in Texas. Chartered in 1850 and operating from Harrisburg toward the Brazos by 1853, the company received state encouragement in the era when Texas used public land to build transportation infrastructure. This is a corporate patent story rather than a settler headright: the State of Texas converted acreage into railroad capital, and the resulting survey name still anchors later deeds, leases, and mineral title work.
Same grantee, other counties: Anderson County · A-157 · Cherokee County · A-152 · Freestone County · A-110 · Houston County · A-210 · Houston County · A-219 · Houston County · A-209
Other abstracts in this county with the same grantee: A-735
Oil & gas activity
No recent leasing or permitting activity on A-31 in the last five years, though the abstract carries 1 historical drilling permits (last in 1983). 3 wells sit on the polygon, 2 plugged and abandoned, 1 in other status, operated by EXCHANGE OIL&GAS, WADLEY J K.
Source authority
Texas General Land Office (GLO) holds the patent record for every original survey abstract in Texas, including A-31. 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.