GLO survey abstract · Robertson County, Texas
A-197 is a GLO survey abstract in Robertson County, Texas - granted to Houston & Texas Central Railway Co. - ~330 acres. The polygon below is the real survey boundary. Estimated instruments, leases, wells, and ownership stats are scoped to this abstract; the Foundation workbook stitches every record back to patent.
Original grantee
The Houston and Texas Central Railway began as the Galveston and Red River Railway chartered in 1848, then took the H&TC name in 1856 as its rails pushed from Houston toward the interior. By the early 1870s the line had reached Corsicana, Dallas, Denison, Austin, and Waco through linked rail projects. A Houston & Texas Central survey is therefore a corporate land-grant record from the period when Texas used acreage, certificates, and public aid to turn railroad construction into permanent transportation corridors and permanent county abstract names.
Other abstracts in this county with the same grantee: A-378 · A-400 · A-418 · A-417 · A-194 · A-399
Oil & gas activity
3 wells sit on the polygon, 2 active or permitted, 1 in other status, operated by BURLINGTON RESOURCES O & G CO LP, TANOS EXPLORATION II, LLC.
All Robertson County abstracts See the full Foundation workbook
Source authority
Texas General Land Office (GLO) holds the patent record for every original survey abstract in Texas, including A-197. The Robertson County clerk's abstract index, every CAD parcel reference, and every lease ever recorded on this tract trace back to the GLO patent.
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Surrounding abstracts
Six spatially-nearest GLO abstracts. Useful when you're scoping a contiguous tract or following a chain across survey lines.