Iola, Humboldt, Moran: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Allen County, shallow Bartlesville and Squirrel oil at Iola and Humboldt-Chanute.
Allen County has about 2,500 producing oil wells and almost none of them make a barrel a day. That is the Cherokee Basin oil business: cheap shallow wells, small operators, and royalties that have been paying since the Moran field came in in 1903. Production here actually rose in 2024 and 2025, which is more than most of eastern Kansas can say.
What produces here. Kansas Geological Survey production for 2025: 246,190 barrels of oil from 2,507 wells and 146,957 Mcf of gas from 83 wells, and 128,759 barrels and 59,022 Mcf for January through June 2026. Oil has climbed from 201,482 barrels in 2021. It comes from the Bartlesville and Squirrel sands of the Cherokee Group, with Mississippian below, in the Iola, Humboldt-Chanute, Moran, Elsmore Shoestring, Bronson-Xenia, Colony-Welda Southeast and Davis-Bronson fields. Operators on checks and in the county records include McFadden Oil, N & B Enterprises, Colt Energy, Bayonet Petroleum, A & A Well Service, Ensminger Energy, E K Energy, Verde Oil and L & G Petroleum Operating. The Kansas Corporation Commission plugged 130 orphaned Allen County wells under the federal initial grant through September 2024 and lists an 810-well Allen, Labette and Neosho project for the next round.
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 Kansas.
Humboldt-Chanute (1939), Iola (1937), Moran (1903), Neosho Falls-Leroy (1905) and Bronson-Xenia: shallow Cherokee Group oil under some 2,500 producing wells.
A small side business here; 146,957 Mcf from 83 wells in 2025, mostly Bevier coal leases.
Wherever your tract sits in Allen County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Kansas county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Kansas mineral rights.
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 Kansas, what heirs should do.
What Kansas mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity.
Everything a Kansas 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.
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Prefer the phone? Call or text 918-984-1645 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 to 918-984-1645 and our preliminary offer puts a written number in front of you within about two business days. It holds for 7 while you decide.