Breckenridge, Caddo, and the ranches in between: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Stephens County, the Breckenridge boom's legacy oil a century on.
Stephens County is Breckenridge, and Breckenridge in 1921 was the biggest oil story in America: 200 wells inside the city limits, a town that went from 1,500 people to 30,000 in a year, and one year in which the field made 15 percent of all the oil produced in the United States. That boom is the reason your family owns minerals here. What it left is shallow oil on pump under old leases, a fair amount of Caddo gas, and ownership that has been divided every generation since Harding was president.
What produces here. Stephens County Regular, which made 85,930 of the county's 94,609 barrels in August 2026, with gas from Caddo (Duffer), Stephens County Regular (Gas), Pitz (Duffer), Iles and Cumming (Conglomerate), and Caddo North (Duffer). Railroad Commission production for July 2026: 100,737 barrels of oil plus 1,811 barrels of condensate and 440,834 Mcf of gas. The operators you will see on checks and in the county records include Basa Resources, which produced about three quarters of the county's August oil, along with Delta Oil and Gas, Petex, Braka Operating, Ridge Oil, Jeff Dooley Operating, and Parker Energy. Drilling is idle: the Commission shows no new-drill permits approved in Stephens County in 2024, 2025, or 2026 through early November, only three recompletions and one field transfer this year; the last new drills were Brazos River Exploration wells in 2023.
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 Texas.
Where nearly all of the county's oil is reported: the shallow Caddo, Strawn, and Ranger sands that the 1921 Breckenridge boom drilled, now on pump under a single large operator and dozens of small ones.
Caddo, Caddo North, Pitz, Iles, and Cumming: the gas side of the county, from the Duffer and Marble Falls conglomerate.
Plumb, Langford, Clevinger, Parks, and the other small named fields that still report.
Wherever your tract sits in Stephens County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
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