Live data · East Texas oil belt

https://Cherokee.County.Land

Every RRC-permitted well in Cherokee County is plotted on the map below (1,136 pins). The full County Foundation, every recorded instrument joined to wells, parcels, surveys, and ownership, is in production. Use Leon County as the live reference for what your runsheet will look like.

Request Cherokee Foundation See the Leon County reference

Cherokee Access

The wells in Cherokee County, on a live map.

Click a well for operator, lease, API, and current status. The full Foundation runsheet for Cherokee ships with abstracts, leasing intensity, ownership, and skip-traced contacts.

1,136RRC wells & permits
92K+Est. recorded instruments
18,551O&G leases on file
RuskCounty seat

The county

Cherokee County, at a glance.

Cherokee County Courthouse, Rusk, Texas
Cherokee County Courthouse · Rusk, Texas · built 1941 · Shirley Simons
Region
East Texas oil belt
County seat
Rusk
Cities
Rusk (county seat) · plus Jacksonville, Alto, Wells, Bullard, New Summerfield

A little history

Created in 1846 from Nacogdoches County and named for the Cherokee people who occupied the area before the Cherokee War of 1839. The Rusk-to-Palestine railroad once carried convicts to the iron furnace at Rusk Penitentiary. Today the county is active in Eagle Ford east-extension and Woodbine leasing.

Public records

Courthouse and records, Cherokee County.

Courthouse: 135 S. Main Street, Rusk, TX 75785

Cherokee County Clerk

Deeds, oil & gas leases, mineral conveyances, releases, affidavits of heirship, probate filings, marriage and birth records.

Address: 135 S. Main Street, Rusk, TX 75785
Phone: (903) 683-2350

Cherokee District Clerk

Civil suits affecting title (quiet title, partition, declaratory judgments), trespass to try title, condemnation, contested probate.

Address: 135 S. Main Street, Rusk, TX 75785
Phone: (903) 683-2350

Online records

For sovereignty-to-current chain of title in Cherokee County, our title team pulls deed records in person and reconciles them against the online index. Online date ranges vary by vendor and aren't always complete; for closing-grade title work, we verify at the courthouse.