# Sell Mineral Rights in Clinton County, IL | Berlin Royalties > Sell Clinton County, IL mineral rights: Centralia, Carlyle and Bartelso field royalties near Carlyle, Breese and Trenton. Free valuation with the work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/illinois/clinton-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 · Clinton County ## Sell your Clinton County mineral rights. Carlyle, Breese, Trenton: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Clinton County, quiet acreage on the west edge of the basin with the Centralia and Carlyle fields underneath. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Clinton County is a quiet county and this page will treat it as one. Carlyle had a field by 1912 and the Devonian at Centralia made headlines in the late 1930s, with the best wells coming in at as much as 12,000 barrels a day, but nobody has permitted a well of any kind here in 2024, 2025 or 2026. What is left is a few hundred old wells and a lot of families in Breese, Carlyle and Trenton holding a small royalty their grandparents signed for. **What produces here.** The Illinois Petroleum Resources Board puts Clinton County at 75,682 barrels for calendar 2025, down from 77,941 in 2024, a little over one percent of the state. The oil comes from the west half of the Centralia field, shared with Marion County, and from Patoka, Carlyle, Carlyle North, Bartelso, Beaver Creek South, New Memphis, Fairman, Germantown East, Posey, Frogtown North and Shattuc, with more wells bottomed in the Devonian and Silurian than in any other formation and the Mississippian Benoist, Bethel and Cypress above; the ISGS database carries about 1,150 unplugged oil producer records here. Gulf, Shell and Sohio are on the historical records, and the smaller names in the county records include Elmer Oelze Jr., Adams Oil and Gas, Jet Oil, Surpass Oil and Gas and T. M. Conrey. There is no recent activity to report: the IDNR weekly permit logs for 2025 and 2026 through late October contain no Clinton County permits, and the ISGS well database shows none dated 2024 either. 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 ### Centralia, Carlyle and the Clinton County fields The west half of the Centralia field on the Marion County line, where the Devonian wells of the late 1930s came in at thousands of barrels a day, plus Patoka, Carlyle, Carlyle North, Bartelso, Beaver Creek South, New Memphis, Fairman, Germantown East, Posey, Frogtown North and Shattuc. ### Devonian, Silurian, Benoist and Cypress Clinton County is deeper pay than most of the basin: more wells here bottom in the Devonian and Silurian than in anything else, with the Mississippian Benoist, Bethel and Cypress above and the Ordovician Galena in a few of the old tests. Counties ## Communities we see in Clinton County title Carlyle Breese Trenton Aviston Germantown Wherever your tract sits in Clinton 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 Clinton County owners What are mineral rights worth in Clinton County? It depends on the wells and units actually touching your tract, their decline, and your decimal, and in Clinton County that is almost always a legacy lease from the 1930s and 1940s with no new drilling anywhere near it, so the value is in the checks as they are, not in what might come. Illinois publishes no well-level production, so your statements are the record. We value off them and show the work, free, and if the honest answer is that it is not worth selling, we will say that. Can the surface owner take my Clinton County minerals if our family has 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 Clinton County is the defense. Do I have to probate my parent's Clinton County minerals? Usually, if they were in your parent's name. Illinois treats severed minerals as real estate, and the small estate affidavit under 755 ILCS 5/25-1 reaches personal property only and cannot be used at all if the decedent owned any Illinois real estate. An out-of-state parent generally needs an ancillary probate in Clinton County. On a committed purchase we coordinate and pay for the probate or ancillary proceeding ourselves. 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 Clinton 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 Clinton 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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