Paola, Louisburg, Osawatomie: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Miami County, the Paola-Rantoul shallow oil field on the Missouri line.
Miami County is Kansas City's southern suburb and, under the subdivisions, the Paola-Rantoul field, which has been pumping Pennsylvanian sand oil since 1918. It is the least glamorous oil county in the state and one of the most heavily drilled, and the state just spent a chunk of its federal plugging money cleaning up its orphans.
What produces here. Kansas Geological Survey production for 2025: 160,401 barrels of oil from 2,500 wells, and 74,329 barrels from 2,444 wells for January through June 2026, with no gas reported. Oil was 215,678 barrels in 2019. Almost all of it is the Paola-Rantoul field, with Louisburg, Block, Black and Beagle behind it, producing from the Hepler, Knobtown, Peru, Bartlesville and Squirrel sands. Operators on checks and in the county records include Bobcat Oilfield Service, JTC Oil, Poverty Knob Production, Bauer Oil Investment, M. J. T. Enterprises, Superior Oilfield Services, Diamond B Miami Flood, Altavista Energy, Haas Petroleum and Justin Energy. The Kansas Corporation Commission plugged 334 orphaned Miami County wells under the federal initial grant through September 2024, the largest county count in any single project of that program.
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.
Discovered in 1918 and still the whole story: more than 7,000 wells drilled, 32.6 million barrels produced from the Hepler, Knobtown, Peru and Bartlesville sands, and most of the county's active leases today.
Smaller Squirrel sand fields around Louisburg, plus a coal gas area that no longer reports production.
Wherever your tract sits in Miami 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.
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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.