Danville, Dardanelle, Ola: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Yell County, the southern edge of the Arkoma Basin gas fields.
Yell County is the bottom edge of the Arkoma Basin. The gas fields come down out of Pope and Logan counties, cross the river around Dardanelle, and peter out before the Ouachitas, so the county has a modest, steady gas stream from three operators and a lot of mountain ground that will never be drilled. Two county seats, Danville and Dardanelle, each keep their own land records.
What produces here. Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission production data show Yell County at 145,497 Mcf of gas and no oil for June 2026, with monthly volumes between 143,000 and 160,000 Mcf through August 2026. Merit Energy was the largest reporter for the month at about 76,000 Mcf, with Ross Explorations at about 34,000 Mcf and Hanna Oil and Gas at about 5,000 Mcf; those three are the operators you will see on checks and in the county records. There has been no new drilling of note in the county in 2025 or 2026.
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 Arkansas.
Conventional gas sands in the northern part of the county toward the Arkansas River, produced by Merit Energy, Ross Explorations and Hanna Oil and Gas.
South of Danville the basin runs into the Ouachita Mountains and the wells stop; minerals there are non-producing and much of the ground is national forest or timber company land.
Wherever your tract sits in Yell County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Arkansas county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Arkansas 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 Arkansas, what heirs should do.
What Arkansas mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity. Unclaimed Arkansas royalties: where the money goes and how an heir claims it.
Everything a Arkansas 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.
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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.