The severed estate, on the record
Who owns the minerals, what they are worth, and what your state actually says.
Someone may own the rights beneath your land, and the deed that did it could be a century old. This atlas reads the statutes and the case law, quotes them verbatim, and dates every claim.
EVERY FACT CITES ITS SOURCE. NO PAGE HERE IS WRITTEN BY SOMEONE TRYING TO BUY YOUR MINERALS. EVERY PAGE SHOWS THE DATE IT WAS LAST CHECKED.
Jul 29 2026
What is on the record today
Fifty states have a row in the status table. 50 of them have full pages. No state is part-read right now, and the next one has not been started. That is a small number and it is the true one.
The reason it is small is the rule this site is built on: a claim about your property does not get published here until the statute, the opinion or the agency document behind it has been fetched and read. Not summarized from a search result, not remembered. Read.
Every incumbent in this niche can publish fifty state pages this afternoon. That is exactly why nobody can tell which of their sentences is still true.
Status of the record on .
"If I own the land, I own what is under it."
In much of the United States that has not been true for a hundred years. The mineral estate can be split off from the surface and sold on its own, and once it is split it travels through its own chain of title. Buying the land afterwards does not buy it back.
What that means where you live is a question about your state's statutes and your own deed, which is what the state pages are for.
How a claim gets on this page
It names a source, and the source is the authority itself or an allowlisted verbatim copy of it carrying the citation it reproduces. Mineral buyers, brokers and content farms are refused outright.
It carries the date it was last checked, and the build refuses to publish it once that date goes stale.
It carries how well it is nailed down. A claim read verbatim is quoted. A claim confirmed only indirectly renders inside a visible caveat and is never quoted. A claim that could not be confirmed is not published at all, and appears instead in the page's list of gaps.
| County | State | Permits filed | Active operators | vs. prior 30 days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No observations on file yet. This ledger starts empty on purpose. | ||||
NOTHING HERE IS ESTIMATED. When this ledger fills, it reads public filings from the state regulators, timestamped, with a change log. Nobody compiles a public price history for mineral acres, which is why this site would rather show you an empty table than a number it cannot source.