GLO survey abstract · Cherokee County, Texas
A-954 is a GLO survey abstract in Cherokee County, Texas - granted to Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. - ~650 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 Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway name belongs to the railroad-land-grant chapter of Texas history. Texas used public acreage to promote rail construction and other internal improvements, granting land to companies as lines were built and surveyed. A G C & S F RR CO abstract is not a family headright; it is an infrastructure patent, a record of the State of Texas turning land into transportation capital. Later surface deeds, mineral leases, and title work still refer back to that corporate survey name even after the railroad's original interest passed into private hands.
Same grantee, other counties: Houston County · A-1177
Oil & gas activity
No RRC oil & gas wells or active permits intersect A-954. Surface use, mineral severance, and rights-of-way may still drive recordings on this abstract.
All Cherokee 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-954. The Cherokee 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.