Livingston, York, Cuba: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Sumter County, quiet acreage on the Mississippi line north of the Smackover fields.
Sumter County is Black Belt prairie and timber on the Mississippi line, and it has been drilled just often enough to keep the hope alive without ever paying a royalty. The Smackover fields that made Choctaw County next door never crossed into Sumter, and the one modern shale test here was dry. What Sumter families hold is mineral reservations in old land deeds, which is a real thing to own and a modest thing to sell.
What produces here. Nothing. The State Oil and Gas Board lists 18 wells in Sumter County, all wildcats, 17 dry and abandoned and one cancelled; the deepest was Bernard/Hickox's J. Hagerman 9-11 No. 1 to 21,476 feet in 1991, and the last was Range Production's Sumter Farm and Stock 04-10 No. 1, a shale gas test to 9,839 feet permitted in May 2007 and abandoned dry. The Board's production database has no Sumter County entry for August 2026 or any other month.
Whatever you own here, producing royalties, non-producing acreage, or an inherited fraction split among family, we will identify it from whatever paperwork you have, value it off the actual wells and activity, and show you the reasoning with the offer. Free, no obligation, and no pressure: if keeping it is the right answer, we will say so. Inherited it? Start with inherited mineral rights in Alabama.
Eighteen wildcats since 1945, including a 21,476-foot test in 1991 and a Range Production shale gas well in 2007, have all been dry; the paying Smackover fields start in Choctaw County to the south.
Wherever your tract sits in Sumter County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Alabama county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Alabama mineral rights.
Whether you need a probate, the affidavit and transfer on death routes, the dormant mineral rules, and where unpaid royalties go: inherited mineral rights in Alabama, what heirs should do.
What Alabama mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity. Unclaimed Alabama royalties: where the money goes and how an heir claims it.
Everything a Alabama owner needs in one place: who owns what under state law, how royalties must be paid and by when, what a buyer can and cannot deduct, the tax treatment of a sale, and the deadlines that quietly cost people their minerals. Free, and no sign-up.
Read the Alabama guideThe things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated.
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Prefer the phone? Call or text 918-984-1645 and you will get Stephen, the owner, not a call center. If we miss you, we text back the same day.
In a hurry? Text a photo of a royalty check stub to 918-984-1645 and our preliminary offer puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide.