Buyers name a play as if you could see it from the farm gate. These layers are the same class of public outlines landmen work from: EIA tight-oil and shale-gas plays, sedimentary basins, crude and gas transmission lines, BOEM federal OCS wells, and public well units where a state publishes them. Click a play for the basin name and a link to the matching play landing and location page. Township-range-section on this map is the same public PLSS family Nevada uses in its Mineral Rights Explorer guide — we keep their maps with them.
Land identifiers are public grids, not your title. Townships, ranges, and sections draw from the national PLSS grid (EIA / CadNSDI). Lots currently draw in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Colorado. Most of Texas uses surveys, abstracts, and blocks instead. Wells are Texas RRC, New Mexico OCD, Ohio DNR, and Louisiana SONRIS. Well units currently draw in Ohio and Louisiana. Nevada land status, Master Title Plats, and mining-claim density live on the Nevada Division of Minerals Mineral Rights Explorer — walk that sequence in our words on the guide page.
How to use it with a letter
- Find the play or basin the letter names. If the outline is hundreds of miles from the county on the envelope, the story is marketing.
- Match the legal: section-township-range on PLSS land, or survey / abstract / block in Texas. Click a polygon for the call. If the tract is Nevada (or other federal PLSS land and you need patents and reservations), open the Mineral Rights Explorer guide — the official maps stay at NDOM.
- Pipelines nearby do not mean your tract is in a unit. Turn on Well units in Ohio or Louisiana to see public pooling / conservation outlines — still not your title.
- Type a street address, city, or county in Address — matches populate as you type, then click one or Go.
- Click Zoom area, then drag a box on the map to fly into a county or tract.
- OCS wells are federal offshore only. Onshore pads and laterals need a county zoom (11+) in Texas, New Mexico, Ohio, or Louisiana, then the instrument. Well units draw from zoom 9 in Ohio and Louisiana. Dense areas show a sample so the map stays usable.