Smith County, Texas · Survey abstract

A-259: CULBERTSON, M survey

97.9 acres in Smith County. The state’s records tie no wells and no drilling permits from the last 24 months to this abstract.

Free. We look for new drilling permits on A-259 (a horizontal well whose bottom hole ends here counts), completions and first production, and email you once a week at most.

A map of the land, not of who owns it.

Acres, state layer: 97.9 acres
Wells: 0
Horizontal wells: 0
Producing leases: 0oil or gas sold, 12 months
Permits, 24 months: 0
Events, 12 months: 0

This survey on one page to print, with its wells and a scale.

This does not tell you who owns the minerals

A survey boundary, a well or a permit on this land says nothing about who owns the minerals under it, or in what share. Your deed does, and the county clerk keeps the deeds. Where to find them.

About the boundary

Survey shapes come from the Railroad Commission survey layer, converted from its NAD27 coordinates to the coordinates the well points and the map use. They are close, not surveyed: a well near a boundary may belong on the other side of the line. A survey boundary or nearby well does not establish ownership. Crossing entries compare surface and bottom-hole endpoints; they are not surveyed lateral paths.

Plat of

A-259

CULBERTSON, M SURVEY

SMITH COUNTY, TEXAS

97.9 ACRES (STATE LAYER)

Drawn from the Railroad Commission’s survey polygons, layer dated 2026-09-29. Not a survey.

Map key

A-259, traced in red pen
Neighbouring abstracts (tap one to open it)
Well, active
Well, shut in
Well, status not stated
Ring around it: horizontal well
Permit, surface location
Permit, bottom of the hole
Pairs the two ends of one permit. Not the drilled path.

Faded marks are on the land around A-259. Permits from the last 24 months.

The 6 abstracts around A-259

From the state’s records

What is recorded on A-259

Railroad Commission wells, leases and permits tied to this abstract. Dates and names are as the state publishes them.

Wells the Railroad Commission ties to A-259: either the operator’s filing names the abstract, or the well’s mapped point falls inside the survey shape. A well here may produce from a unit that takes in other land too.

Wells on A-259
API number	Operator	Status	Horizontal	Lease	How it is tied here
No wells on record for A-259.

Leases with a well tied to A-259, with what the state’s monthly reports show sold in the last 12 months. A lease is the operator’s reporting unit; your share of it depends on your deed and your division order.

Leases with wells on A-259
Lease	Operator	First report	Latest report	Oil sold, 12 monthsbarrels	Gas sold, 12 monthsmcf
No lease reports production from a well tied to A-259.

Drilling permits the state matched to A-259 in the last 24 months. A permit is permission to drill, not a well: some are never drilled.

Drilling permits on A-259, last 24 months
Permit	Issued	Operator	Lease name on the permit	Horizontal
No drilling permits on A-259 in the last 24 months.

Endpoint evidence, not surveyed laterals

A horizontal well goes down, then sideways, sometimes under the next abstract. For each permit here one end (the surface location or the bottom of the hole) is on A-259 and the other is not. The state publishes the two ends, not the path between them, so this does not show where the well runs or which land it drains.

Horizontal permits with one end on A-259
Permit	Issued	Operator	End on A-259	API number
No horizontal permit has just one end on A-259.

What the state recorded on A-259 in the last 12 months: permits issued or amended, wells completed, first production.

Activity on A-259, last 12 months
Date	What happened	Well or lease	API number
Nothing recorded on A-259 in the last 12 months.

County deed records

Ask the Smith County Clerk

We have not written up Smith County’s deed records yet. The county clerk keeps the deed records for land in the county. You can call, write or visit, and the office can tell you what is online and what a copy costs.

The deed is what shows who received the minerals. A map of the land, like the one on this page, does not.

Volume and page is the address of a deed in the county’s books.

What to ask the clerk for

The deed that describes this land, by its recording number: the volume and page, or the instrument number.
The grantor and grantee index for the names on your family's deeds, so you can find the later deeds too.
Copies of any mineral deeds, royalty deeds or probate records that mention the land.

Take this with you

A-259, CULBERTSON, M survey, Smith County

Hear when something new is filed on A-259

A new drilling permit is often the first sign of a new well, and of new royalty months later. We check the state’s records every week.

Watch A-259, free

Sources

The survey shape is from the Railroad Commission’s survey layer, dated Sep 29, 2026. Wells, leases, permits and production are the Commission’s public records as loaded into Royalty Clerk.

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Survey map of A-259

What is recorded on A-259

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Sources