Howard, Moline, Longton: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Elk County, small Mississippian and Lansing-Kansas City stripper leases on the edge of the Cherokee Basin.
Elk County is one of the quietest producing counties in Kansas: a couple hundred wells, a few dozen very small operators, and royalties that have been dividing among heirs since the Hale-Inge field came in before the First World War. We buy here because small and steady is an asset class, not because anyone is about to drill a boom.
What produces here. Kansas Geological Survey production for 2025: 46,987 barrels of oil from 224 wells, and 22,082 barrels from 199 wells for January through June 2026, with no gas reported since 2022. The oil is Mississippian, Lansing-Kansas City, Layton, Peru and Arbuckle from fields like Hale-Inge, Webb, Bush-Denton, Schrader, Oliver, Thomas, Moline and Rettig. The operators on checks are small: Z & L Oil, Lone Wolf Oil & Gas, Murfin Drilling, Thomas Wade Patteson, Mike and Robin Dixon, K & A Oil, Ken Cody and P & C Petroleum. The Kansas Corporation Commission plugged 18 orphaned Elk County wells under the federal initial grant through September 2024 and lists a 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.
Hale-Inge (1907), Webb (1926), Bush-Denton (1920), Schrader, Oliver and Dunkleberger: small structural fields, none over two million barrels, worked by very small operators.
The county sits on the western edge of the coalbed methane play, and KGS reports no gas production from Elk County since 2022.
Wherever your tract sits in Elk 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.
Read the Kansas guideEvery oil and gas operator in Kansas, with contact information, refreshed from the state regulator. Free to search, and useful whether or not you ever sell anything.
The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated.
Free, no obligation, and no pressure. We reply within one business day, usually faster.
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.