# Sell Mineral Rights in Wayne County, IL | Berlin Royalties > Sell Wayne County, IL mineral rights: Clay City Consolidated, Golden Gate and Johnsonville royalties near Fairfield and Wayne City. Free valuation, work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/illinois/wayne-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 · Wayne County ## Sell your Wayne County mineral rights. Fairfield, Wayne City, Cisne: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Wayne County, the deep center of the Illinois Basin and the south half of Clay City Consolidated. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Wayne County sits over the deepest part of the Illinois Basin, and for a generation after Clay City Consolidated came in in 1937 it was the most drilled ground in the state: the ISGS database carries about 3,100 unplugged oil producer records here and 4,300 plugged ones. The rigs are mostly gone. The royalties are not, and most of the ones we see are a fraction of a fraction, divided among cousins who have never been to Fairfield. **What produces here.** The Illinois Petroleum Resources Board puts Wayne County at 231,247 barrels for calendar 2025, eighth in the state, down from 248,966 in 2024. The oil comes from the south half of Clay City Consolidated and from Golden Gate Consolidated, Johnsonville Consolidated, Mill Shoals, Maple Grove Consolidated, Barnhill, Aden Consolidated, Calhoun Consolidated, Keenville, Half Moon, Markham City North and Mayberry, with pay in the Ste. Genevieve, Salem, McClosky, Ullin, Aux Vases and Warsaw. Pure Oil and the Texas Company are still on the historical records; the operators you will see on checks and in the county records today include CountryMark Energy Resources, which completed an oil well here in 2025, Mid-States Oil, Fairfield Oil, Dee Drilling, Nichols Operating, Pioneer Oil and Jerry E. Friend. Drilling is thin: the IDNR weekly permit logs show one oil well permit in 2025, a Quimbys Mill test to 6,500 feet in August, and three in 2026, Mid-States Oil's Dozier 1 in April and Fairfield Oil's Sams 1 on October 5, both Ullin wells to 4,400 feet in the same section southeast of Fairfield, and Dee Drilling's Fearn 1 to the Aux Vases at 3,250 feet on October 23, 2026. 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, Golden Gate and Johnsonville The south end of Clay City Consolidated, discovered in 1937, plus Golden Gate Consolidated, Johnsonville Consolidated, Mill Shoals, Maple Grove, Barnhill, Aden, Calhoun, Keenville, Half Moon and Mayberry, the thickest stack of Mississippian pay in the basin. ### Ste. Genevieve, Salem, McClosky and Ullin The Valmeyeran carbonates that carry Wayne County, with the Aux Vases and Warsaw alongside; the 2026 permits are Ullin tests at 4,400 feet and an Aux Vases well at 3,250. Counties ## Communities we see in Wayne County title Fairfield Wayne City Cisne Jeffersonville Golden Gate Wherever your tract sits in Wayne 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 Wayne County owners What are mineral rights worth in Wayne County? It depends on the wells and units actually touching your tract, their decline, and your decimal, and in Wayne County that ranges from a long-dead Pure Oil lease to a waterflood that still pays every month, 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 field's history and show the work, free. Do I have to probate my parent's Wayne 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 Wayne County. On a committed purchase we coordinate and pay for the probate or ancillary proceeding ourselves. Where is the production data for my Wayne County wells? Not online. Illinois has no public well-level production reporting; the Illinois Petroleum Resources Board publishes annual county totals and the ISGS ILOIL map carries well records and field outlines, but the monthly volumes behind your check are not public. The operator's statements and your division orders are the record, and we read them free. 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 Wayne 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 Wayne 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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