GLO survey abstract · Leon County, Texas
A-1147 is a GLO survey abstract in Leon County, Texas - granted to TC RR CO - ~700 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.
Activity profile
Aggregated from the Texas clerk-of-records instruments table. Counts are real document counts on this abstract, not estimates.
| Deed Of Trust | 73 | 26% |
| Warranty Deed | 44 | 15% |
| Oil & Gas Lease | 42 | 15% |
| Warranty Deed Vendors Lien | 37 | 13% |
| Release Of Lien | 31 | 11% |
| Easement | 24 | 8% |
| Oil & Gas Assignment | 20 | 7% |
| Deed | 15 | 5% |
Original grantee
Texas Central Railroad surveys trace to the State of Texas policy of paying railroad builders with public land. Nineteenth-century Texas granted millions of acres to encourage internal improvements, especially railroad construction, and those corporate patents became permanent survey names in county records. The Texas Central was chartered for a line that began near Waco and was later amended for broader north and westward ambitions. A TC RR CO abstract therefore marks the railroad era of Texas land policy: acreage converted into infrastructure, then folded into ordinary deed, lease, and mineral-title chains.
Same grantee, other counties: Freestone County · A-870 · Freestone County · A-737 · Freestone County · A-738 · Freestone County · A-739 · Freestone County · A-831
Other abstracts in this county with the same grantee: A-1331 · A-1285 · A-1318 · A-1287 · A-1466 · A-1325
Oil & gas activity
In the last three years, 7 new oil & gas leases have been filed against A-1147, part of a longer chain of 23 all-time.
Source authority
Texas General Land Office (GLO) holds the patent record for every original survey abstract in Texas, including A-1147. The Leon 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.