# Help!
**URL:** https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/help/21715
**Category:** Terry County, TX
**Created:** [March 26, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/help/21715 "2012-03-26T03:40:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Kelley\_jennings](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Kelley_jennings)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/help/21715/1 "2012-03-26T03:40:28Z")
How do you find out exactly what you do own. So far I have leased 3 and about to do a 4th. When the phone rings it’s a total surprise. Is there a way to input family names to locate mineral interests?
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### Author:  [@Amy\_Anne\_White\_Smith\_Pickett](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Amy_Anne_White_Smith_Pickett)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/help/21715/2 "2012-03-26T03:49:02Z")
You can call the local courthouse in the town you are getting calls from…it’s all on file. Call tomorrow…
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### Author:  [@Gene\_Finley](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Gene_Finley)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/help/21715/3 "2012-03-26T04:16:52Z")
Kelley: ownership of real estate and mineral interest ownership are recorded by Deed at each Texas county’s courthouse in the County Clerk’s office. Mineral interests are a separate “Estate” per Texas real estate statutes/law. Mineral interests can be sold separately from the surface “Estate”. Oil companies commonly hire people to search the County Clerk’s records to determine who owns mineral interests.
My suggestion is for you to contact the County Clerk’s office in the county where your minerals are.
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### Author:  [@JW\_Anderson](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/JW_Anderson)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2012, 12:32pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/help/21715/4 "2012-03-26T12:32:36Z")
There are some online applications that will let you search land records from the county clerk’s office, such as [http://www.texasfile.com](http://www.texasfile.com)
However, they typically only go back a few years, and they don’t go back to the beginning; however, they are often very helpful. If you are in Terry County, this particular county is NOT included yet online.
Without some idea of WHICH Section/Township/Range or labor/league your property is located, calling or visiting the county clerk’s office is a daunting task. It’s about like walking into a library without a card catalog.
You might be able to learn something about the general location from the properties you have already leased. When you get phone calls on the 4th property, quiz the landman calling about your question.
Good luck.
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### Author:  [@Derek\_Timmons](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Derek_Timmons)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2012, 12:35pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/help/21715/5 "2012-03-26T12:35:16Z")
Kelly since your leasing currently has the price per acre gone up any more since this began? 400 to 450?
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### Author:  [@Kelley\_jennings](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Kelley_jennings)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/help/21715/6 "2012-03-26T13:45:41Z")
Absolutely last Sept/2011. 250 and 25%. That was just for 10 acres. The most recent 400 but only 23%. The best deal I made was last year for 350 25%. But it was for only 2 years. All the other leases have been for 3 years. This last lease that I haven’t signed yet may be a while. Got a family member in East Texas that doesn’t know sic 'em from come here. And of course HE is reluctant to let a woman help him even though I’ve been in the oil business for 34 years. So we are either going to snooze and lose on this or get a better price.
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### Author:  [@Amy\_Anne\_White\_Smith\_Pickett](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Amy_Anne_White_Smith_Pickett)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/help/21715/7 "2012-03-26T21:34:11Z")
We got $500/acre, 25% royalty, 3-year lease… It’s coming up on 2 years that we signed… so, if it goes past one more year, we will re-sign at the same rate… Just FYI. Hoping that they find something soon. Just heard that they are re-doing the engineering… so it will take some time to fix a problem they just acquired… but with luck they think they found something good. You never know!
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### Author:  [@Derek\_Timmons](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Derek_Timmons)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/help/21715/8 "2012-03-26T21:37:53Z")
Amy, what part of the county are you in?
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### Author:  [@Amy\_Anne\_White\_Smith\_Pickett](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/Amy_Anne_White_Smith_Pickett)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/help/21715/9 "2012-03-26T22:53:27Z")
Terry County (more in center of Terry County) and other acres in Hockley County.
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2018, 3:51am UTC](https://www.mineralrightsforum.com/t/help/21715/10 "2018-08-15T03:51:25Z")