Mount Vernon, Fredericktown, Danville, Centerburg: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Knox County, Clinton country at the western limit of the Utica.
Knox County builds the compressors the gas industry runs on, through Ariel and Siemens in Mount Vernon, and it also has about 1,200 wells of its own, most of them small Clinton wells that have been pumping for decades. For a mineral owner that means a modest royalty, an old lease, and a title chain that probably has not been touched since the well was drilled.
What produces here. ODNR's 2025 annual production report shows 57,666 barrels of oil and 282,283 Mcf of gas from Knox County, with 1,210 wells reporting and 923 producing, none of them horizontal. Valley Petroleum Management had 155 producing wells, Elkhead Gas and Oil 111, and Knox Energy 110, with Knox Energy's 121,301 Mcf the largest gas volume of any operator; Maram Energy, B and J Drilling, Dugan Oil and Gas, LBJ Drilling and MFC Drilling are the other names on checks. ODNR's 2026 quarterly horizontal report lists no Knox County wells, and no 2025 or 2026 Utica permits in the 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.
More than 900 Knox County wells reported production in 2025, every one of them conventional. Valley Petroleum Management, Elkhead Gas and Oil and Knox Energy run the largest blocks.
Knox County sits at the western limit of the play. ODNR's 2026 quarterly horizontal report lists no producing Utica wells in the county.
Wherever your tract sits in Knox 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.