Atwood, Herndon, McDonald: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Rawlins County, the Cahoj field and a Lansing-Kansas City play that was still finding new fields in the 2010s.
Rawlins County is the quiet success story of northwest Kansas: a 1959 field, Cahoj, that keeps producing, and a Lansing-Kansas City play that was still turning up new fields like Scoda and East Fork in 2013. Murfin Drilling runs a large share of the leases, the 2013 to 2015 boom that peaked at 1.46 million barrels in 2014 has settled into a steady 360,000 to 390,000 barrels a year, and the royalties here are better than most owners realize.
What produces here. Kansas Geological Survey production for 2025: 363,979 barrels of oil from 243 wells, and 181,107 barrels from 228 wells for January through June 2026; the county has never reported gas. Oil peaked at 1,455,460 barrels in 2014, bottomed at 297,510 in 2020, and has run between 363,979 and 392,550 a year since 2022. It is Lansing-Kansas City oil almost entirely, with Marmaton and Cherokee lime at Celia South, from Cahoj, Cahoj West, Wilhelm East, Scoda, East Fork, Drift and St. John Cemetery among 125 active fields. Murfin Drilling holds 61 of the 155 leases that reported in 2025 or 2026, with Downing-Nelson Oil, Thresher Energy, Black Oak Exploration, Carmen Schmitt, Meridian Energy, BEREXCO, Gore Oil, John O. Farmer, Talon Group and Thoroughbred Associates also on checks.
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.
Cahoj (1959, 8 million barrels, 187 wells) and Wilhelm (1959) are the anchors; Scoda and East Fork, both discovered in 2013, show the play was still growing a decade ago.
Celia South (1983) produces from the Cherokee lime and Marmaton as well as the Lansing B zone; Rawlins has never reported gas.
Wherever your tract sits in Rawlins 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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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.