Yates Center, Toronto, Neosho Falls: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Woodson County, nearly 3,800 shallow oil wells at Vernon, Winterschied and Neosho Falls-Leroy.
Woodson County has close to 3,800 producing oil wells, more than any other county on this page, which tells you what kind of place it is for a mineral owner. The Squirrel sand around Yates Center and Toronto is shallow, cheap to pump, and has been paying small royalties to the same families since the 1930s. We like exactly that.
What produces here. Kansas Geological Survey production for 2025: 333,299 barrels of oil from 3,795 wells, and 159,064 barrels from 3,758 wells for January through June 2026, with no gas reported. Oil was 449,792 barrels in 2019, so the decline is real but slow. It comes from the Squirrel and Bartlesville sands and the Mississippian in Vernon, Winterschied, Neosho Falls-Leroy, Owl Creek, Perry-Halligan, Big Sandy, Quincy and Yates Center. Operators on checks and in the county records include Laymon Oil II, Trimble & Maclaskey Oil, Owens Petroleum, RJ Energy, Owens Oil Company, 325 Energy Operations, Ron-Bob Oil, Kraft Oil, Colt Energy and C3Oil. The Kansas Corporation Commission plugged 83 orphaned Woodson wells under the federal initial grant through September 2024.
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.
Vernon (1938), Winterschied (1975), Neosho Falls-Leroy (1905), Owl Creek, Quincy and Perry-Halligan: the densest shallow oil development in Kansas, 3,795 producing wells in 2025.
The deeper zone under Virgil North and Winterschied; Woodson has no gas production to speak of.
Wherever your tract sits in Woodson 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.
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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.