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GLO survey abstract · Freestone County, Texas

A-739TC RR CO survey

A-739 is a GLO survey abstract in Freestone County, Texas - granted to TC RR CO - ~520 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

Texas Central Railroad Company

State of TexasResearched 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.

railroad internal improvement

Same grantee, other counties: Leon County · A-1331 · Leon County · A-1285 · Leon County · A-1318 · Leon County · A-1287 · Leon County · A-1466 · Leon County · A-1325

Other abstracts in this county with the same grantee: A-870 · A-737 · A-738 · A-831

Oil & gas activity

New leases, permits, and wells on A-739.

No RRC oil & gas wells or active permits intersect A-739. Surface use, mineral severance, and rights-of-way may still drive recordings on this abstract.

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Source authority

Where these abstract designations come from.

Texas General Land Office (GLO) holds the patent record for every original survey abstract in Texas, including A-739. The Freestone 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

Nearby in Freestone County.

Six spatially-nearest GLO abstracts. Useful when you're scoping a contiguous tract or following a chain across survey lines.