# Sell Mineral Rights in Crawford County, IL | Berlin > Sell Crawford County, IL mineral rights: Main Consolidated and Robinson sand royalties near Robinson, Oblong and Palestine. Free valuation, work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/illinois/crawford-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 · Crawford County ## Sell your Crawford County mineral rights. Robinson, Oblong, Palestine: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Crawford County, the Main Consolidated field and the shallow Robinson sand. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Crawford County is where Illinois oil started. Benedum and Trees leased 50,000 acres and completed the Robert Athey 1 in 1905, Mahutska Oil drilled the Shire farm at Oblong in 1906, and the shallow Robinson sand has been pumping ever since: the ISGS well database carries about 7,600 unplugged oil producer records and 5,700 plugged ones here, more than any other county in the state. The royalties are small, old, and remarkably durable, and almost every one of them has passed through two or three estates. **What produces here.** The Illinois Petroleum Resources Board puts Crawford County at 547,275 barrels for calendar 2025, third in the state, down from 583,303 in 2024. Nearly all of it is the Main Consolidated field, the old Robinson and Oblong pools along the La Salle anticline, producing from the Pennsylvanian Robinson, Spoon and Caseyville sands at 900 to 1,300 feet under waterflood, with smaller Mississippian production at Bellair, New Bellair and New Hebron East. The Ohio Oil Company and Marathon names are still on the historical records; the operators you will see on checks and in the county records today include B and D Resources and Anicline Energy of Robinson, LaCross, Bergbower Energy, Triangle Oil, Fain Oil, Dogwood Creek Oil and Maus's Well Service. The county had more permits in 2026 than anywhere in Illinois outside White County, and most of them were flood work: the IDNR weekly logs show at least 10 oil well permits in 2026 through late October, including B and D's four Kirk wells in September and Anicline's Francis lease wells in the Caseyville at 1,160 feet, plus 32 water injection permits, 14 of them LaCross's Barrick, Walters and Conover leases, and three Robinson sand gas wells permitted to Randell D. Smith in February 2026. In 2025 the logs show 14 oil permits, seven of them Anicline's. 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 ### Main Consolidated and the Robinson sand The 1905 to 1906 discoveries near Robinson and Oblong opened the Illinois Basin, and the shallow Pennsylvanian Robinson, Spoon and Caseyville sands at 900 to 1,300 feet still carry the county, almost entirely under waterflood. ### Bellair, New Bellair and New Hebron East The smaller fields on the Jasper County line, with Mississippian pay in the Ste. Genevieve, Cypress and Aux Vases beneath the Pennsylvanian. Counties ## Communities we see in Crawford County title Robinson Oblong Palestine Hutsonville Flat Rock Wherever your tract sits in Crawford 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 Crawford County owners What are mineral rights worth in Crawford County? It depends on the wells and units actually touching your tract, their decline, and your decimal, and in Crawford County that usually means a share of a shallow waterflood lease that has been pumping since before the Depression, so county averages mislead. Illinois publishes no well-level production, so the operator's statements are the record. We value off them and the lease history and show the work, free. Do I have to probate my parent's Crawford 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 Crawford County. On a committed purchase we coordinate and pay for the probate or ancillary proceeding ourselves. Does Illinois take a severance tax out of my royalty? No. Illinois has no severance or gross production tax on conventional oil and gas. The 3 percent Hydraulic Fracturing Tax applies only to wells permitted under the 2013 horizontal fracturing law, and Crawford County's thousand-foot Robinson sand wells are nothing of the kind. Lease deductions and Illinois income tax are what come off your check. 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 Crawford 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 Crawford 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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