# Sell Mineral Rights in Chautauqua County, KS | Berlin > Sell mineral rights in Chautauqua County, Kansas. Berlin Royalties buys minerals and royalties near Sedan: Peru-Sedan oil. Free valuation, work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/kansas/chautauqua-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 · Kansas · Chautauqua County ## Sell your Chautauqua County mineral rights. Sedan, Cedar Vale, Peru: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Chautauqua County, the Peru-Sedan field and the southwest corner of the Cherokee Basin. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Chautauqua County is where the Cherokee Basin runs out against the Oklahoma line, and the royalties here come in two flavors: Peru-Sedan oil that has been paying since 1900, and coalbed gas that mostly stopped paying in the last ten years. We buy the first kind happily and price the second kind honestly. **What produces here.** Kansas Geological Survey production for 2025: 109,874 barrels of oil from 918 wells and 18,857 Mcf of gas from 10 wells, and 50,512 barrels and 4,724 Mcf for January through June 2026. Oil was 171,735 barrels as recently as 2019, so the county is sliding, not collapsing. Nearly all of it comes from the Peru-Sedan field, with Elgin, Landon-Floyd, Hylton, Oliver, Hale-Inge and the Cherokee Basin Coal Area leases behind it, producing from the Englevale sand, Mississippian, Wyandotte and the Pennsylvanian coals. Operators on checks and in the county records include Jones Oil Exploration, Kansas Energy Company, Keen Oil, John and Patricia Elmore, Jones & Buck Development, RedBud Oil & Gas Operating, Z & L Oil, Lone Wolf Oil & Gas and Thomas Wade Patteson. The Kansas Corporation Commission plugged 218 orphaned wells here through September 2024 and lists a further 103-well Chautauqua and Elk project for the formula-grant 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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/kansas/). Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Peru-Sedan and Wayside-Havana Found in 1900 and 1904, these sprawling shallow fields produce from the Marmaton, Mulky coal, Mississippian and Arbuckle, and Peru-Sedan alone has made more than 26 million barrels. ### Cherokee Basin coal gas, in decline Coalbed methane gas here fell from 86,115 Mcf in 2019 to 18,857 Mcf in 2025 as wells were plugged, so most Chautauqua checks today are oil. Counties ## Communities we see in Chautauqua County title Sedan Cedar Vale Peru Niotaze Elgin Wherever your tract sits in Chautauqua 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 start with how to [sell Kansas mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/kansas/). ### Inherited Kansas 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 Kansas, what heirs should do](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/kansas/). [What Kansas mineral rights are worth](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/kansas/), information only, with this month's activity. ### The Kansas mineral owner's guide 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. [Read the Kansas guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/kansas/) [Every oil and gas operator in Kansas](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/operators/kansas/), with contact information, refreshed from the state regulator. Free to search, and useful whether or not you ever sell anything. Questions ## Straight answers for Chautauqua County owners What are mineral rights worth in Chautauqua County? Most Chautauqua interests are shares of century-old shallow oil leases at Peru-Sedan, Elgin and Landon-Floyd, and they are worth a multiple of a small, slow-declining check. The coal gas side has mostly been plugged, so we do not pay for gas that is no longer coming. Send a stub and we will price the actual lease, free. The gas wells on my Chautauqua lease were plugged. Do I still own anything? Yes. Plugging a well does not take your minerals; it usually ends the lease that was holding them, which means the minerals come back to you unleased. The Kansas Corporation Commission plugged 218 orphaned Chautauqua County wells under the federal initial grant through September 2024. Whether unleased minerals here are worth much depends on what the shallow oil operators around you are doing, and we will tell you honestly. I inherited Kansas minerals that nobody has touched in decades. Do I still own them? Probably, but check before you assume. Kansas has a 20-year dormant mineral act, K.S.A. 55-1601, under which a severed mineral interest that has gone unused for 20 years can lapse back to the surface owner unless the owner records a statement of claim. Filing that statement is cheap and cures the problem. We check the dormancy question on every Kansas valuation we do, 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 Chautauqua 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 - [How to sell mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-mineral-rights/) and [how to sell oil and gas royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-oil-and-gas-royalties/), with the real process and timeline - [Who buys mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/who-buys-mineral-rights/), the five kinds of buyer compared, and [the companies that buy mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-buyers/) and how to check them - [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 Chautauqua 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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