# Sell Mineral Rights in Hamilton County, IL | Berlin > Sell Hamilton County, IL mineral rights: Dale Consolidated and Aux Vases royalties near McLeansboro, Dahlgren and Broughton. Free valuation, work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/illinois/hamilton-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 · Hamilton County ## Sell your Hamilton County mineral rights. McLeansboro, Dahlgren, Broughton: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Hamilton County, Dale Consolidated and the Aux Vases, with Bi-Petro drilling Ullin wells south of town. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Hamilton County is Dale country, the middle of the three-county Dale Consolidated field that came in in 1940, and it is one of the few places in Illinois outside White County where a landowner can still watch a rig move in. Bi-Petro has been permitting Ullin wells south of McLeansboro at a steady clip for three years. Most of what we buy here, though, is older: an Aux Vases royalty under a lease signed before the war. **What produces here.** The Illinois Petroleum Resources Board puts Hamilton County at 222,005 barrels for calendar 2025, tenth in the state, down from 264,414 in 2024. The oil comes from Dale Consolidated, shared with Franklin and Saline counties, and from Roland Consolidated, Mill Shoals, Bungay Consolidated, Aden Consolidated, Walpole, Enfield, Thackeray, Dahlgren and Long Branch, with pay in the Aux Vases above all, then the Ste. Genevieve, McClosky, Ullin and Warsaw; the ISGS database carries about 1,480 unplugged oil producer records here. Shell and the Texas Company are still on the historical records; the operators you will see on checks and in the county records today include Bi-Petro of Springfield, Patrick Webb Oil, Brehm Oil, Herman L. Loeb and Moore Engineering and Production. The IDNR weekly permit logs show 10 oil well permits in 2025, six of them Bi-Petro's, and at least seven in 2026 through late October, again six Bi-Petro, and every one of the 2026 wells is an Ullin test at 4,225 to 4,400 feet: Bi-Petro's Anselment 3-B and Miller 1-7 in June, Patrick Webb Oil's Webb-Johnson 6 in July, and Bi-Petro's Stratton 1-3 on September 30, 2026, all in Townships 6 South, Ranges 5 and 6 East south of McLeansboro. 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 ### Dale Consolidated and the Hamilton County fields Dale Consolidated, discovered in 1940 and shared with Franklin and Saline counties, plus Roland Consolidated, Mill Shoals, Bungay, Aden, Walpole, Enfield, Thackeray, Dahlgren and Long Branch. ### Aux Vases More Hamilton County oil wells bottomed in the Aux Vases sand than in any other formation, with the Ste. Genevieve, McClosky and Warsaw alongside; it is the classic Dale pay. ### Ullin The deeper Valmeyeran carbonate at 4,200 to 4,400 feet, the target of nearly every Hamilton County permit in 2025 and 2026, most of them Bi-Petro's in Township 6 South. Counties ## Communities we see in Hamilton County title McLeansboro Dahlgren Broughton Macedonia Dale Wherever your tract sits in Hamilton 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 Hamilton County owners What are mineral rights worth in Hamilton County? It depends on the wells and units actually touching your tract, their decline, and your decimal, and in Hamilton County that ranges from a Dale waterflood royalty paid since the 1940s to acreage under a 2026 Ullin permit, so county averages mislead. Illinois publishes no well-level production, so your check stubs and division orders are the record. We value off them and the activity around you and show the work, free. Can the surface owner take my Hamilton County minerals if I do nothing? Not automatically, but Illinois has a court process that ends the same way. Under the Severed Mineral Interest Act, 765 ILCS 515, a surface owner or would-be lessee can 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. Keep a recorded instrument with a current address in Hamilton County and it cannot start against you. How quickly does an Illinois operator have to pay me on a new well? 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 the payor 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 Hamilton 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 Hamilton 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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