Wolf Point, Poplar, Culbertson: Montana's fastest growing Bakken county, and the one where the first question is always whether the minerals are fee or trust.
Roosevelt County is Montana's growth story in the Bakken and also its most complicated title county. Production runs about 565,000 barrels a month across roughly 254 producing wells, 2025 set a record at around 6.6 million barrels, and recent permitting has been the heaviest in the state after Richland. Slawson, Kraken, Black Dog, Devon, Continental, and Phoenix are all active.
Before any of that matters, there is a threshold question. Most of Roosevelt County lies within the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, roughly 2.1 million acres of which about 378,000 are tribally owned and about 548,000 are individually allotted, with the remainder having passed to fee under the 1908 Fort Peck Allotment Act. Trust and allotted interests are administered through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, are heavily fractionated by heirship, and generally are not acquirable by a private buyer. Fee minerals exist in the checkerboard left by post 1908 homesteading.
We make that determination first, free, and we tell you the answer even when the answer is that we cannot buy what you have. Anyone who makes you an offer on Roosevelt County minerals without establishing fee versus trust has not done the work.
Montana also withholds 6 percent of your net royalty at the source as a tax prepayment, and Montana has no dormant mineral act, so nothing here lapses for nonuse. Send us what you have and we will sort out which category you are in.
The east side of the county near the North Dakota line, around Bainville and Brockton, where the recent permitting is concentrated.
The East Poplar Unit at Poplar field, a long established conventional producer.
Deeper conventional pays across the county.
Wherever your tract sits in Roosevelt County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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