Graham, Olney, Newcastle, Loving: we buy minerals and royalties throughout Young County, shallow Strawn and Caddo oil that has paid since the 1920s.
Young County has been producing shallow oil since the North Texas booms of the 1920s, and it has never stopped, just slowed. The Handbook of Texas puts the county at over seven million barrels in 1956; today it is about 50,000 a month, spread across more than a hundred small operators pumping Strawn sand and Caddo lime wells that are mostly older than their owners. This is classic North Texas stripper country, and the title here is a hundred years of deeds, reservations, and family divisions.
What produces here. Young County Regular, which made 18,106 of the county's 45,574 barrels in August 2026 and a share of its gas, the I.M.U. (Caddo Consolidated) unit, Jean Northwest (Caddo), Sweeney (Caddo), Daws, Lupton-McLester, and a long list of Strawn and Caddo pools. Railroad Commission production for July 2026: 50,086 barrels of oil and 142,208 Mcf of gas. One hundred thirty one operators reported production in August 2026; the larger ones you will see on checks and in the county records include Ridge Oil, Stovall Operating, S.B. Street Operating, Nadel and Gussman, Walsh and Watts, B.O.L.D. Oil and Gas, and Borderline Operating. Drilling is shallow and steady: 12 new-drill permits approved between January and early November 2026, all vertical, led by Ruthson Energy and B.O.L.D. with three each.
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.
The Commission's catch-all for the county's shallow fields, where most of the oil and a good share of the gas is reported; hundreds of small operators on vertical wells.
The Caddo lime and conglomerate pools that made Graham an oil town.
Langston-Kleiner, Kendall, Wilton, and dozens of small Strawn sand fields drilled shallow across the county.
Wherever your tract sits in Young County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown.
We buy in every Texas county, including ones without a page here. See the full county index, or start with how to sell Texas 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 Texas, what heirs should do.
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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.