Evansville, Darmstadt, McCutchanville: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Vanderburgh County, the Warrenton East, Vaughn North, and Elliott fields under the edges of Indiana's third-largest city.
Vanderburgh County is Evansville, the biggest city in the Indiana oil patch and the place where a lot of the basin's operators keep their offices, with a handful of small old fields in the farm townships north of town and under the Gibson County line. The wells are shallow, the checks are small, and the minerals are often severed from land that has since become a subdivision, which is the combination that gets an interest extinguished under Indiana's dormant mineral law without anyone noticing.
What produces here. Oil from Warrenton East, which straddles the Gibson line, and from Vaughn North, Elliott, and Martin north of Evansville, in the Pennsylvanian Mansfield, Cypress, Hardinsburg, Big Clifty, Aux Vases, Ste. Genevieve, and McClosky. 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 Vanderburgh is a small share. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Westwind Investment Corp, which deepened the Louise Becker Burgdorf 1 to the McClosky in Vaughn North and completed it as an oil well at 2,528 feet in October 2025, converted the L. B. Burgdorf 5 to injection at 1,021 feet in May 2026, and permitted the A. J. Burgdorf W-1 and the Elliott 1 in the Elliott pool as injection wells in February 2026; and Trey Exploration, which converted the Edward Reiman W-3 to Cypress injection in the Martin pool in January 2026. The state's May 2026 summary counted five enhanced recovery completions in Vanderburgh, which is the whole character of the county: waterflood maintenance, not new drilling.
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.
Discovered in 1950 on the Gibson line, with about 1.18 million barrels through 1991 from the Hardinsburg, Big Clifty, Renault, Aux Vases, and Ste. Genevieve.
Small fields north of Evansville in the Pennsylvanian Mansfield, Cypress, Aux Vases, Ste. Genevieve, and McClosky at 1,000 to 2,500 feet, kept alive by waterflood conversions in 2025 and 2026.
Wherever your tract sits in Vanderburgh 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.
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 Indiana, what heirs should do.
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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