Norton, Almena, Lenora: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Norton County, Arbuckle and Lansing-Kansas City oil in the Ray and Norton fields.
Norton County is Arbuckle country in the far northwest, where the Ray and Norton fields have been producing since the 1940s and 1950s and the county's output has barely moved in six years. For a mineral owner that steadiness is the whole point: these are checks you can price with confidence, and we do.
What produces here. Kansas Geological Survey production for 2025: 150,984 barrels of oil from 153 wells, and 77,870 barrels from 144 wells for January through June 2026; the county has never reported gas. Oil has held between 148,266 and 166,348 barrels every year since 2019. It comes from the Arbuckle, Reagan, Lansing-Kansas City and Shawnee in Norton, Densmore, Hansen Estate Northwest, Hewitt Northwest, Ray West, Mod and Mod North. Operators on checks and in the county records include Lario Oil & Gas, Ritchie Exploration, FourWinds Oil, John O. Farmer, Baird Oil Company, Gore Oil Company, Northern Lights Oil, Vess Oil, DGH Oil and BlueRidge Petroleum.
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.
Ray (1940, shared with Phillips) and Norton (1953, 12.8 million barrels) produce from the Arbuckle under Lansing-Kansas City, and the Arbuckle still carries the most active leases in the county.
Ray West (1945), Densmore (1957), Hansen Estate and Harting produce from the Lansing-Kansas City and the Reagan sand; Red Fox, found in 2011, is the newest field of any size.
Wherever your tract sits in Norton 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.
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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.