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Do I own mineral rights in Texas?
What the finder searches
Texas appraisal districts list every taxable mineral interest on a yearly roll, under the owner’s name. We load the rolls of the counties that publish them and match your name on the words in it, in any order, so John A. Smith and Smith, John A find the same account. When there are few exact hits we add close spellings and mark them.
What it does not search
- Deeds. The county clerk keeps them. The estate report gives the clerk search links for each county.
- Counties whose roll is not published. The results list them, with a link to each district’s own search page.
- Interests that were never taxed. A very small royalty can be missing from a roll.
A royalty owner who finds an account can check the statements against the state record. A family that has lost someone can start an estate report. Money an operator could not deliver may be waiting with the state: search for unclaimed royalties.
Questions owners ask
Common questions
Short answers. Sources are at the end of the page.
How do I find out if I own mineral rights in Texas?
Start with the county appraisal district. Counties tax mineral interests, so an owner with royalty or mineral value normally has an account on the district's roll, under the owner's name. This tool searches the rolls of the counties that publish them. It does not search deeds, so an interest that was never put on the tax roll will not appear.
Does a name that is not found mean there is nothing?
No. The interest may be under a trust, an estate or a different spelling. It may be in a county whose roll is not public online, or on a roll we have not loaded. Texas has 254 counties and the results say which ones this search covered, and which appraisal districts to search yourself.
Is the name I type saved or shared?
No. It is sent to our server once to run the search, is never put in the web address, and the answer is not cached or stored. No result is ever on a page a search engine can read, and the only thing we count is that a search was made.
Why do I see less without an account?
A county roll names a private person and prints a decimal and an appraised value next to it. Without an account we show the name as the roll prints it, the counties and the lease names. An account adds the decimals, appraised values and lease pages.
What is an account on the roll?
One line the appraisal district taxes: an owner's interest in one lease or unit. A royalty owner with interests in three leases usually has three accounts. The roll gives the owner's name, the lease as the operator reported it, the kind of interest and the value the district assigned.
The owner has died. What should I do?
Search the name as it was in life and any names the person used. Then consider the estate mineral report, which searches every name you give it, values each interest as of the date of death, splits it among the heirs and lists what has to be done and by when.
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