GLO survey abstract · Rains County, Texas
A-?8 is a GLO survey abstract in Rains County, Texas - granted to ELLIS, C - ~44 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.
Original grantee
The C Ellis abstract anchors back to one of Texas's land-distribution programs of the Republic and early State eras, when settlers, soldiers, and certificate holders converted their claims into surveyed acreage. The GLO indexes it as Houston Preemption file 000427. The GLO patent file remains the controlling root document for any chain of title that runs through C Ellis.
Same grantee, other counties: Houston County · A-1164
Oil & gas activity
No oil & gas leases or drilling permits intersect A-?8 in our dated records.
Source authority
Texas General Land Office (GLO) holds the patent record for every original survey abstract in Texas, including A-?8. 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.