Miami, Commerce, Quapaw, Afton, Fairland: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Ottawa County, the old Tri-State lead and zinc district in the state's northeast corner, with no oil and gas production on record.
Ottawa County is the northeast corner, Miami and Route 66, and the ghost of the Picher mining field. From 1891, when the first shafts went down near Peoria, until the mines closed, this county was the center of the Tri-State Lead and Zinc District, the world's largest source of both metals at its 1926 peak, and the chat piles and the Tar Creek Superfund site are what it left behind. Oil and gas never had a part in that story and still does not.
What produces here. Nothing that reports to the state. Production aggregators that compile Oklahoma Corporation Commission data list no producing oil or gas wells, no reporting operators and no permits in Ottawa County, and there is no 2025 or 2026 drilling to report. The Oklahoma Historical Society's mining entry records that underground mines in the county produced roughly 1.3 million tons of lead and 5.2 million tons of zinc before closing, and that no metals have been produced in Oklahoma into the twenty-first century. An Ottawa County mineral interest today is a historical document more often than an income stream.
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 Oklahoma.
From 1891 until the mines closed, Ottawa County's Picher field was the world's largest source of lead and zinc. The ore bodies are mined out and the district is a Superfund site; the county has no oil or gas production on record.
Wherever your tract sits in Ottawa County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Oklahoma county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma, what heirs should do.
What Oklahoma mineral rights are worth, information only, with this month's activity. Unclaimed Oklahoma royalties: where the money goes and how an heir claims it.
Everything a Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma guideEvery oil and gas operator in Oklahoma, with contact information, refreshed from the state regulator. Free to search, and useful whether or not you ever sell anything.
The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated.
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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.