Gallup, Crownpoint, Thoreau: we buy minerals and royalties throughout McKinley County, in the southern San Juan Basin, mostly Navajo Nation and allotted land.
McKinley County is not a drilling county anymore, and this page is not going to pretend it is. Oil production fell from 241,916 barrels in 1993 to about 13,730 in 2021, and the county produces only a few thousand Mcf a month today. What McKinley has is owners: thousands of Navajo allottees and the families holding old Hospah royalties, most of whom have been told nothing about what their interest is worth.
What produces here. Legacy oil from the Hospah field in the southern San Juan Basin, on federal and old Santa Fe Railroad leases, operated by Dugan Production Corp and Enerdyne LLC. MineralAnswers put the county at about 3,200 Mcf a month in May 2026, with no meaningful oil. The future of McKinley drilling is tied to the Mancos and Gallup play in Sandoval County next door and to the outcome of the BLM's 2026 review of the Chaco withdrawal.
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. If you are an allottee, start with the BIA lease number on your check; that is the record we work from. Inherited it? Start with inherited mineral rights in New Mexico.
The county's historic oil field in Townships 17 and 18 North, Range 8 West, on federal and old Santa Fe Railroad leases; the Gallup Formation does not occur north of Hospah.
Most of the county is Navajo Nation or Zuni reservation, and the minerals that matter are held in trust and leased through the BIA.
Wherever your tract sits in McKinley County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every New Mexico county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell New Mexico 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 New Mexico, what heirs should do.
What New Mexico mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity. Unclaimed New Mexico royalties: where the money goes and how an heir claims it.
Everything a New Mexico 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 New Mexico guideThe things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated.
Free, no obligation, and no pressure. We reply within one business day, usually faster.
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.