A virtual abstract plant · Texas
County.Land is a virtual abstract plant for Texas counties. We pull every recorded instrument from the county clerk, every well from the Railroad Commission, every parcel from the appraisal district, every survey from the GLO, and our abstractors organize it into one linked workbook. When the work has to happen on the ground, our landmen do it on a day rate.
The pain above
Typo. Backspace. Re-search. Wipe the row. Confuse royalty for mineral interest. Mix fractions and decimals. Start over a week later because the chain doesn't tie. This is the work County.Land hands your landman already done, so the day starts at the judgment, not the assembly.
What it is
A virtual abstract plant for Texas counties. We pull every recorded instrument from the county clerk, every well and permit from the RRC, every parcel from the CAD, every survey from the GLO. All of it OCR'd, normalized, cross-referenced, and linked in one workbook. When the work has to happen at the courthouse, our landmen pull, copy, and abstract documents on the ground at standard day rates.
What we ship
The county at a glance: coverage, instrument counts, well counts, runsheet date range, and the legend for every tab.
Every recorded instrument (deeds, leases, releases, mineral conveyances, easements) in chronological order, normalized, with Abstractor's Notes on each row.
CAD parcel data joined to GLO survey abstracts. Every surface tract resolved to its current owner of record.
Severed minerals overlaid on surface, abstract-by-abstract. Every severance instrument linked.
Resolved current owners by interest type: fee mineral, NPRI, ORRI, leasehold. Each row back-links to the acquiring instrument.
RRC data joined to abstracts. HBP status flagged with reasoning. The column that answers "is this acreage open or held?"
Address, phone, email, age, relatives for every identified mineral owner. Confidence-banded.
The craft column. A senior landman's plain-English memo per tract: chain health, lease status, recommended actions.
Hyperlinked PDFs of every source document, indexed the same way the runsheet is. Click any 🔗 to open the viewer with OCR side-by-side.
See it in your browser
Click through all nine sheets of a real sample workbook. Click any 🔗 in the runsheet to open the PDF and OCR side-by-side in our document viewer. This is exactly what your Landman team will receive.
Every county, mapped
Interactive layered map of every Texas county we ship. Abstracts, wells, surface parcels. Toggle layers, click any abstract for instrument counts, distinct grantor/grantee counts, runsheet date range, top operator, well count.
Three ways to engage
Whole-county pre-MOR workbook. Fully normalized, ready for your Landman team to construct MORs. Best for mineral funds entering a basin, operators planning a campaign, or title companies prepping major underwritings. See pricing tiers.
Run title on a single tract. Real estate or oil & gas. 2 to 5 business days in counties we already source. Full chain, encumbrances, mineral status, abstractor's written summary. Or a one-survey abstract runsheet.
An extension of your land team. Outsourced abstracting on a day rate. We match your runsheet template, your tag vocabulary, and your delivery cadence, then slot into the workflow you already run. Curative, staff augmentation, and expert-witness support also welcome.
Who hires us
Evaluate a basin before acquisition. Ground truth before $10M to $50M decisions.
Two moats
Raw clerk indices are a mess. Same person spelled six ways, "WD" vs. "Warranty Deed" vs. "WARR DEED", legals as free-text. We resolve every variant to a canonical entity ID across the entire county. You can pivot, filter, and trust the result.
Every collapse is audited internally. When you ask why two names were merged, we can show you the chain.
RRC W-1, W-2, G-1, P-5 and production data stitched to the legal land grid. The hbp_inferred column answers the question every landman is trying to answer, without a separate research pass.
Permit expirations, shut-in clocks, and pending drills all surfaced inline.
Trust
We deliver the foundation your Landman team builds the MOR on. The methodology page is published. Every shipped workbook ships with an accuracy guarantee.