Is there an online site to lookup who owns the mineral rights from a legal description of land? if not, how does one find that out?
Scott:
I am not familiar with any website which would contain mineral ownership. The best and most accurate method would be via the records at the county clerk's office.
Thx Charles
Scot,
Charles is correct, there is no website that has accurate records of Oklahoma mineral rights ownership. Since mineral interests are not taxed like surface rights are, there is not an easy way of looking for them. Even digging around in the county clerk’s office can be difficult. You might find some clues looking at okcountyrecords.com if there have been transactions or leasing within the years of record. Each county is different as to if records are available online, what time period, and if the full record or just the name and document number is listed. Even the legal may be listed different depending on the county. When you go to the clerk’s office, they may or may not have a computer system with more records than is available online. Also a lot of records may have to be searched in the court clerk records or probate records.
Searching for records can be quite a bit of a genealogy task I most cases.
What county do you think you might own rights in? And where would you have obtained rights from?
In the State of Florida, somebody told me that the minerals automatically go with the surface. Can anybody confirm that? If so, that would be the only state I am aware of with that circumstance.
Pete, I doubt that is true. Possibly they meant that if not reserved the minerals automatically go with the surface?
I doubt it's true too, but that's what my cousin told me, who has worked for decades for an attorney specializing in real estate and probate. I said that if that were true then there are probably very few landmen working in Florida!
It would certainly make things interesting, probably with landmen going door to door.