GLO survey abstract · Rains County, Texas
A-96 is a GLO survey abstract in Rains County, Texas - granted to GIDEONS, E - ~330 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.
| Warranty Deed | 58 | 21% |
| Oil Gas & Mineral Lease | 50 | 18% |
| Deed Of Trust | 35 | 13% |
| Assign Ogl | 33 | 12% |
| Oil & Gas Lease | 30 | 11% |
| Mineral Deed | 28 | 10% |
| Release Of Lease | 20 | 7% |
| Warranty Deed W/Vendors Lien | 17 | 6% |
Original grantee
Located and patented through one of the Texas certificate programs, the E Gideons survey is the root of every later deed, lease, and severance that touches this Rains County acreage. The GLO indexes it as Nacogdoches 3rd file 000229. with the patent issued to Burk, Samuel. Subsequent surface deeds, mineral severances, and lease records in Rains County rest on this original patent.
Oil & gas activity
No recent leasing or permitting activity on A-96 in the last five years, though the abstract carries 2 historical drilling permits (last in 1978). 6 wells sit on the polygon, 3 plugged and abandoned, 3 in other status, operated by EXXON MOBIL, SOHIO PETROLEUM CO, HUMBLE O&R.
Source authority
Texas General Land Office (GLO) holds the patent record for every original survey abstract in Texas, including A-96. 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.