# Sell Mineral Rights in Clay County, IL | Berlin Royalties > Sell Clay County, IL mineral rights: Clay City Consolidated and Sailor Springs royalties near Louisville, Flora and Clay City. Free valuation, work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/illinois/clay-county/ Publisher: Berlin Royalties, a veteran-owned oil and gas mineral and royalty buyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, buying for its own account since 2014. Call or text 918-984-1645. License: free to quote and cite with attribution to Berlin Royalties and a link to the source URL. Where We Buy · Illinois · Clay County ## Sell your Clay County mineral rights. Louisville, Flora, Clay City: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Clay County, the namesake end of the Clay City Consolidated field. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Clay County gave its name to one of the six fields that make up half the Illinois Basin, and then watched most of the drilling move next door. Clay City Consolidated has been producing since 1937, the ISGS database carries about 2,200 unplugged oil producer records here against 2,900 plugged, and what we buy in the county is almost always a legacy royalty: small, steady, and inherited. **What produces here.** The Illinois Petroleum Resources Board puts Clay County at 244,337 barrels for calendar 2025, seventh in the state, down from 270,307 in 2024. The oil comes from Clay City Consolidated, shared with Wayne and Richland counties, and from Sailor Springs Consolidated, Iola Consolidated, Ingraham Consolidated, Kenner, Louisville, Xenia East and Hord, with pay in the Salem, Ste. Genevieve, Cypress, McClosky and Aux Vases. The Pure Oil and Union Oil of California names are still on the historical records; the operators you will see on checks and in the county records today include Elysium Energy, Gator Oil, Citation Oil and Gas, Deep Rock Energy, Kuebler Ultra Oil and Dee Drilling. Drilling is close to nil: the IDNR weekly permit logs show one injection permit in 2025, Kuebler Ultra Oil's Hartley 12 in the Benoist, and two oil well permits in 2026, Deep Rock Energy's DRE Brooks 1 on May 18 and DRE-Lewis 1 on July 14, both to the Fort Payne at 3,800 feet in Township 5 North, Range 7 East northeast of Louisville. 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 Illinois](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/illinois/). Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Clay City Consolidated and Sailor Springs Clay City Consolidated, discovered in 1937 and shared with Wayne and Richland counties, one of the six fields that make up half the basin, plus Sailor Springs Consolidated, Iola, Ingraham, Kenner, Louisville, Xenia East and Hord. ### Salem, Ste. Genevieve, Cypress and McClosky The Valmeyeran carbonates and Chester sands that carry the county, with the Aux Vases and Benoist in between and Fort Payne tests at 3,800 feet in the 2026 permits. Counties ## Communities we see in Clay County title Louisville Flora Clay City Xenia Sailor Springs Wherever your tract sits in Clay County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown. 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See the [full county index](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/counties/) or the [Illinois overview](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/illinois/). ### Inherited Illinois minerals? 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 Illinois, what heirs should do](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/illinois/). [What Illinois mineral rights are worth](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/illinois/), information only, with this month's activity. [Unclaimed Illinois royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/unclaimed-royalties/illinois/): where the money goes and how an heir claims it. ### The Illinois mineral owner's guide Everything a Illinois 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 Illinois guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/illinois/) Questions ## Straight answers for Clay County owners What are mineral rights worth in Clay County? It depends on the wells and units actually touching your tract, their decline, and your decimal, and in Clay County most interests are a small share of a Clay City or Sailor Springs lease that has pumped for seventy years, so county averages mislead. Illinois publishes no well-level production, so the operator's statements and your division order are the record. We value off them and show the work, free. Can the surface owner take my Clay County minerals if our family lost track of them? Not automatically. Illinois has no self-executing dormant mineral act, but the Severed Mineral Interest Act, 765 ILCS 515, lets a surface owner or would-be lessee petition the circuit court against severed minerals whose owners are unknown or missing, with published and mailed notice. The court can appoint a trustee to lease the interest and can eventually vest it in the surface owner, seven years after the judgment, or one year where the severance was more than 20 years old at filing. An owner can intervene before final judgment. A recorded deed or affidavit with a current address in Clay County is the defense. How quickly does an Illinois operator have to pay me? Under the Oil and Gas Rights Act, 765 ILCS 520/10, the first payment is due within 150 days after the end of the month of first purchase, then per the lease or within 60 days for oil and 90 days for gas. Late amounts earn interest at the New York Fed discount rate, and you must give 30 days written notice before suing. Our letter generator writes that notice. What does it cost me to sell? Nothing. Berlin pays all title work, document preparation, and recording costs. The offer you accept is the amount you receive. ## Before you sign anything in Clay County The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated. - [How mineral rights are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/), including the rule of thumb people quote and why it is usually wrong - [Selling mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-mineral-rights/) and [selling oil and gas royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-oil-and-gas-royalties/), with the real process and timeline - [The Pugh clause](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/pugh-clause/), the single most valuable sentence you can negotiate into a lease - [What a farm out is](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/farmout-agreements/), and why your operator suddenly changed - [The rule of capture](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/rule-of-capture/), and why a neighbor's well can legally drain your minerals - [Non-participating royalty interests](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/non-participating-royalty-interest/), if your deed carved one out - [Executive rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/executive-rights/), if somebody else signs the lease that binds your minerals - [Surface owner rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/surface-owner-rights/), if you own the ground and someone else owns what is under it - [Questions to ask a buyer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/questions-to-ask/) and [what happens if you want out after signing](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/can-i-back-out-of-a-mineral-rights-sale/) Free Valuation ## Find out what your Clay County minerals are worth. Free, no obligation, and no pressure. We reply within one business day, usually faster. Prefer the phone? Call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) 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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/text-your-check/) to [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) and our [preliminary offer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/preliminary-offer/) puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide. Your Name Phone Number Email Address Where are your minerals located? 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