Millersburg, Berlin, Walnut Creek, Killbuck: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Holmes County, Clinton stripper country with no horizontal wells.
Holmes County is the center of one of the largest Amish settlements anywhere, about 48 percent of the county in 2020, and it is also a county with more than 1,500 oil and gas wells. The two facts overlap more than outsiders expect. Royalties here are small, conventional, and often held by families that have never been contacted by anyone about them, which is why we say what the interest is worth before we say anything else.
What produces here. ODNR's 2025 annual production report shows 73,935 barrels of oil and 511,664 Mcf of gas from Holmes County, with 1,590 wells reporting and 1,122 producing, all of them conventional; ODNR's 2026 quarterly horizontal report lists no Holmes County wells. W H Patten Drilling made the most oil, 13,270 barrels from 86 wells, and the other names on checks are Diversified Production, Lake Region Oil, Capstone Oil Producing, The Belden Brick Company, B and J Drilling, Mason Producing, Kenoil and Buckeye Oil Producing. No 2025 or 2026 Utica permits or sales in Holmes County appear in the ODNR reports we opened.
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 Ohio.
Holmes County is conventional through and through: 1,122 wells produced in 2025 and none of them were horizontal. The Clinton trend runs from Ashtabula County down through Wayne and Holmes toward Hocking County.
Wherever your tract sits in Holmes County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Ohio county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Ohio 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 Ohio, what heirs should do.
What Ohio mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity. Unclaimed Ohio royalties: where the money goes and how an heir claims it.
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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.