GLO survey abstract · Freestone County, Texas
A-836 is a GLO survey abstract in Freestone County, Texas - granted to TC RR CO/BARNES, S - ~280 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 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.
Other abstracts in this county with the same grantee: A-837
Oil & gas activity
No RRC oil & gas wells or active permits intersect A-836. Surface use, mineral severance, and rights-of-way may still drive recordings on this abstract.
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Source authority
Texas General Land Office (GLO) holds the patent record for every original survey abstract in Texas, including A-836. 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
Six spatially-nearest GLO abstracts. Useful when you're scoping a contiguous tract or following a chain across survey lines.