# Sell Mineral Rights in Vanderburgh County, IN | Berlin > Sell Vanderburgh County, Indiana mineral rights: Warrenton East and Vaughn North royalties near Evansville. Free valuation with the work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/indiana/vanderburgh-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 · Indiana · Vanderburgh County ## Sell your Vanderburgh County mineral rights. 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. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) 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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/indiana/). Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Warrenton East 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. ### Vaughn North, Elliott, and Martin 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. Counties ## Communities we see in Vanderburgh County title Evansville Darmstadt McCutchanville Inglefield Wherever your tract sits in Vanderburgh County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown. 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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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/indiana/). [What Indiana mineral rights are worth](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/indiana/), information only, with this month's activity. [Unclaimed Indiana royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/unclaimed-royalties/indiana/): where the money goes and how an heir claims it. ### The Indiana mineral owner's guide Everything a Indiana 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 Indiana guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/indiana/) Questions ## Straight answers for Vanderburgh County owners What are mineral rights worth in Vanderburgh County? It depends on the wells and units actually touching your tract, their decline, and your decimal, and in Vanderburgh County that ranges from a waterflood royalty north of Evansville to severed minerals under a subdivision that will never be drilled, so county averages mislead. Indiana publishes production only statewide, so your check stubs and division orders are the record. We value off the actual wells and activity and show the work, free. Can my Vanderburgh County mineral rights expire? Yes. The Dormant Mineral Interest Act, Indiana Code 32-23-10, extinguishes a severed mineral interest unused for 20 years and reverts it to the surface owner, with no advance notice; the U.S. Supreme Court upheld it in Texaco v. Short in 1982. Vanderburgh is the Indiana county where this matters most, because minerals severed from farmland before Evansville grew over it have usually not been leased, produced, or taxed in decades, and the surface owner on top may be a homeowner who has no idea the reservation exists. A statement of claim with the Vanderburgh County Recorder before the 20 years run keeps the interest alive. My Vanderburgh County royalty was paid to my grandfather. Where did the money go? If the operator could not find the heirs, unclaimed mineral proceeds go to the Indiana Attorney General's unclaimed property program after three years, and they sit there under the decedent's name. To get the interest into your name, Indiana Code 29-1-7-23 lets any person record an affidavit in the county naming the decedent, the date of death, the vesting deeds, and the distributees, and the recorded affidavit is prima facie evidence of the transfer. We search the unclaimed fund and read the chain free, before we quote a number. 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 Vanderburgh 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 Vanderburgh 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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