# Sell Mineral Rights in Decatur County, KS | Berlin Royalties > Sell mineral rights in Decatur County, Kansas. Berlin Royalties buys minerals and royalties near Oberlin: Lansing-Kansas City oil. Free valuation, work shown. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/kansas/decatur-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 · Decatur County ## Sell your Decatur County mineral rights. Oberlin, Norcatur, Jennings: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Decatur County, Lansing-Kansas City oil in a hundred small fields along the Nebraska line. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Decatur County is Oberlin and a hundred small Lansing-Kansas City fields that the 1950s drillers found one structure at a time. Murfin Drilling operates more of them than anyone, production has been steadier than most of the state, and the royalties are spread across a lot of families who left for Denver and Kansas City a generation ago. **What produces here.** Kansas Geological Survey production for 2025: 172,615 barrels of oil from 163 wells, and 84,012 barrels from 153 wells for January through June 2026; the county has never reported gas. Oil ran between 190,575 and 205,927 barrels a year from 2019 through 2024. It is Lansing-Kansas City oil almost entirely, with Shawnee and Howard limestone at Jennings, from Lawson Northeast, Jennings, Blees, Lester, Monaghan North, May, Adell Northwest and Vavroch. Operators on checks and in the county records include Murfin Drilling, BlueRidge Petroleum, Adeco, Bach Oil Production, Great Plains Energy, Cholla Production, Platte Valley Oil, Green Oilfield Production, StrataKan Exploration and Vess Oil. The Kansas Corporation Commission plugged 8 orphaned Decatur wells under the federal initial grant through September 2024 and lists a 29-well District 4 project covering Decatur, Thomas, Barton, Ellis, Graham and Trego 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](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/inherited-mineral-rights/kansas/). Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Lansing-Kansas City Adell Northwest (1952), Vavroch (1960), Warner (1956), Pollnow (1953), Jorn (1955) and Blees (1969): more than a hundred small structural fields, almost all of them Lansing-Kansas City, with Murfin Drilling on most of them. ### Shawnee and Howard limestone Jennings (1951) produces from the Wabaunsee, Shawnee and Lansing; Decatur has never reported gas. Counties ## Communities we see in Decatur County title Oberlin Norcatur Jennings Dresden Wherever your tract sits in Decatur 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 Decatur County owners What are mineral rights worth in Decatur County? Decatur royalties are northwest Kansas Lansing-Kansas City oil: about 165 wells sharing 170,000 to 200,000 barrels a year, with production actually higher in 2022 through 2024 than in 2019. The fields are small, so which one you are in matters more than the county, and we price the actual lease, free. 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. Can I pass my Kansas minerals to my kids without probate? Yes. Kansas allows a transfer on death deed for any interest in real estate, severed minerals included; record it in the county where the minerals sit and the interest passes outside probate. If the owner has already died without one, Kansas allows a determination of descent in district court six months after death, which is faster than a full probate. We pay for that work when we buy. 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 Decatur 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 Decatur 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? OklahomaTexasNew MexicoLouisiana ArkansasKansasNorth DakotaMontana WyomingColoradoUtahCalifornia West VirginiaOhioPennsylvaniaKentucky MichiganMississippiAlabamaIllinoisIndianaAlaska Sand/Gravel/AggregateOther / Not sure County (if known) A few optional questions that speed up the valuation Interest type Select an option Minerals and Royalties Working Interest Overriding Royalty Interest An Entity (LLC, Partnership, Trust) Not Sure Are you currently receiving royalty checks? Select an option Yes No I Used To But They Stopped Not Sure Have you received offers for your minerals before? Select an option Yes No What best describes your situation? Select an option I'm ready to sell now I'm exploring my options I'm just curious what they're worth When would you like this done? Select an option This month This quarter No timeline, just researching Anything else? (optional) Get My Free Valuation No cost, no obligation, and we never share your information.