Washington, Odon, Plainville: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Daviess County, the Plainville, Washington, and Odon South fields on the eastern edge of the Illinois Basin.
Daviess County is farm country, a good share of it Amish, sitting on the eastern edge of the Illinois Basin where the oil gets shallow, small, and scarce. The fields around Plainville, Washington, and Odon have paid modest royalties since the 1950s, one operator still drills a few 1,000-foot Salem wells a year, and a lot of the severed minerals in the county have not seen a lease since the last oil boom, which in Indiana is a legal problem as much as an economic one.
What produces here. Shallow oil from Plainville, Washington, Odon South, and the Veale pool, in the Aux Vases, Ste. Genevieve, Salem, and Muscatatuck. Indiana publishes production only statewide, not by county: the Division of Oil and Gas reported 115,486 barrels and 239,449 Mcf for July 2026 and 1,315,471 barrels and 2,887,306 Mcf for all of 2025, and Daviess is a small piece of it. The operator in the county records is Indian Black Water, with 132 Indiana wells on the state's August 2026 list: the Riggle 6 and Riggle 7 completed as oil wells at 1,063 and 1,051 feet, the Riggle 4 converted to Aux Vases injection in the Veale pool in March 2025, the Knepp 1 permitted to the Salem at 1,000 feet in Odon South in October 2025, and the Collins 1A in the same pool in April 2026. Ally Exploration permitted the Knepp and Sons 1-28 as a wildcat in June 2026. That is the whole of recent activity, and a Daviess page that said more would be padding.
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 Indiana.
Plainville produces from the Aux Vases, Ste. Genevieve, and Muscatatuck; the Washington field, discovered in 1950, from the Aux Vases, Salem, and deeper Silurian, with about 298,000 barrels through 1991.
Shallow Salem oil first found in 1959. Indian Black Water drilled the Riggle wells to about 1,050 feet in the Veale pool and permitted Knepp 1 and Collins 1A to the Salem at 1,000 feet in October 2025 and April 2026.
Wherever your tract sits in Daviess County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Indiana county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index or the Indiana overview.
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What Indiana mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity. Unclaimed Indiana royalties: where the money goes and how an heir claims it.
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