# Sell Mineral Rights in Jefferson County, IL | Berlin > Sell Jefferson County, IL mineral rights: Salem Consolidated, Divide, King and Woodlawn royalties near Mount Vernon and Ina. Free valuation, work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/illinois/jefferson-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 · Jefferson County ## Sell your Jefferson County mineral rights. Mount Vernon, Ina, Bluford: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Jefferson County, the south end of Salem Consolidated and a dozen small Mississippian fields around Mount Vernon. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Jefferson County is Mount Vernon, where Stewart Producers and other small operators keep their offices, and a ring of small Mississippian fields that have paid modest royalties since the 1940s. It is also a coal county, and the newest permits south of town are for methane out of old mines, not oil, which is worth knowing before you assume a new well is yours. **What produces here.** The Illinois Petroleum Resources Board puts Jefferson County at 158,891 barrels for calendar 2025, down just 1.5 percent from 161,304 in 2024, one of the flattest declines in the basin. The oil comes from the south end of Salem Consolidated and from Divide Consolidated, King, Woodlawn, Boyd, Ewing East, Oakdale, Reservoir, Markham City West and North, Coil, Williams Consolidated and Ina, with pay in the Salem, Ste. Genevieve, Aux Vases, Benoist, McClosky and Bethel; the ISGS database carries about 1,010 unplugged oil producer records here. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include MKE Producing, Stewart Producers of Mount Vernon, Podolsky Oil, Petco Petroleum, CountryMark Energy Resources and Brothers Oil and Iron. The IDNR weekly permit logs show four oil well permits in 2025, Stewart Producers' Hogshead FLP 1 and MKE's Loss 2 to the Ullin and Warsaw in April, a Grand Tower test to 4,400 feet in June, and Podolsky's Clark Waters-Hopkins 1 to the McClosky in December, and in 2026 one oil permit, MKE Producing's Loss 4 on May 29, plus four Keyrock Energy coal mine methane permits in the Herrin coal at 700 feet on August 10 and a Brothers Oil and Iron disposal well in September. 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 ### Salem Consolidated, Divide, King and the Mount Vernon fields The south end of Salem Consolidated, plus Divide Consolidated, King, Woodlawn, Boyd, Ewing East, Oakdale, Reservoir, Markham City, Coil, Williams Consolidated and Ina. ### Salem, Ste. Genevieve, Aux Vases and Benoist Jefferson County wells bottom in the Salem, Ste. Genevieve, Aux Vases, Benoist, McClosky and Bethel, with the 2025 and 2026 permits going to the Ullin-Warsaw at 3,000 to 3,600 feet. Counties ## Communities we see in Jefferson County title Mount Vernon Ina Bluford Waltonville Woodlawn Wherever your tract sits in Jefferson 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 Jefferson County owners What are mineral rights worth in Jefferson County? It depends on the wells and units actually touching your tract, their decline, and your decimal, and in Jefferson County most interests are a small share of a Mississippian lease that has paid steadily for decades, which is a different asset from a shale well and should be priced like one, so county averages mislead. Illinois publishes no well-level production, so your statements are the record. We value off them and show the work, free. Keyrock is permitting gas wells in the old mines south of Mount Vernon. Is that my royalty? Probably not, unless your deed says so. Those are coal mine methane permits in the Herrin coal, gas from abandoned mine workings, and it belongs to whoever owns the coal and gas estate under the deeds that severed the coal, which is often not the oil royalty owner. The Seventh Circuit applied Illinois' rule of capture to coal mine methane in a 2022 Franklin County case. We read the deed free and tell you what you actually own. 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 reaches only wells permitted under the 2013 horizontal fracturing law, and none of the Jefferson County wells are. 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 Jefferson 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 Jefferson 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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