Live data · East Texas oil belt
Cherokee County sits in East Texas. County.Land builds the full records foundation here: every recorded instrument tagged to its GLO survey abstract, joined to wells, parcels, and ownership in one linked workbook. The map below plots 1,136 active RRC wells across the county. Click any abstract polygon to see what's on file, then scope a single tract or the entire abstract.
Nearby counties
Cherokee anchors the eastern edge of the live cluster. Title work here frequently touches abstracts that straddle the line into Anderson or Houston.
The county
Rusk (county seat) · plus Jacksonville, Alto, Wells, Bullard, New Summerfield
Created in 1846 from Nacogdoches County and named for the Cherokee people who occupied the area before the Cherokee War of 1839. The Rusk-to-Palestine railroad once carried convicts to the iron furnace at Rusk Penitentiary. Today the county is active in Eagle Ford east-extension and Woodbine leasing.
Public records
County seat: Rusk · Courthouse: 135 S. Main Street, Rusk, TX 75785
Deeds, oil & gas leases, mineral conveyances, releases, affidavits of heirship, probate filings, marriage and birth records.
Phone: (903) 683-2350
Civil suits affecting title (quiet title, partition, declaratory judgments), trespass to try title, condemnation, probate when contested.
Phone: (903) 683-2454
For sovereignty-to-current chain of title work in Cherokee County, our title team pulls the deed records in person at the courthouse and reconciles them against historical indexes. For closing-grade title work, we verify at the courthouse.