Wooster, Orrville, Rittman, Smithville, Shreve: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Wayne County, Clinton oil country where the trend bends south.
Wayne County is Ohio farm country with an oil patch under it: about 1,600 wells on the ODNR books, 1,100 of them producing, nearly all of them Clinton wells that have run for decades on the same leases. A lot of the mineral interests here were never severed from the farm, and the ones that were tend to be split among families that left for Akron or Columbus a generation ago.
What produces here. ODNR's 2025 annual production report shows 115,284 barrels of oil and 676,072 Mcf of gas from Wayne County, with 1,634 wells reporting and 1,119 producing. Franklin Gas and Oil had 114 producing wells and made 12,112 barrels and 85,183 Mcf; C and C Producing made 15,728 barrels from 60 wells; and Harley Drilling and Producing, Kenoil, MS Producing, Mormack Industries, MFC Drilling, Cutter Oil, Red Bird Producing and OWS Acquisition are the other names on checks. The county's one Utica horizontal, GeoPetro's Hershberger 1H in East Union Township, first produced in November 2012 and reported 92 barrels and 6,981 Mcf in the second quarter of 2026.
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.
ODNR traces the Clinton field trend from Ashtabula County to Wayne County and then south toward Hocking. Wayne made 115,284 barrels and 676,072 Mcf in 2025 from about 1,120 conventional wells.
One horizontal well, GeoPetro's Hershberger 1H in East Union Township, has produced since 2012. It reported 92 barrels and 6,981 Mcf in the second quarter of 2026, and no other Utica wells are listed in the county.
Wherever your tract sits in Wayne 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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