GLO survey abstract · Anderson County, Texas
A-787 is a GLO survey abstract in Anderson County, Texas - granted to VEATCH, JOHN A - ~200 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
John Allen Veatch was a physician, surveyor, mineral observer, and restless frontier polymath. He reached Texas in the 1830s and, under the Republic of Mexico's colonist grant system, secured land while working in the same world of surveys and natural resources that later made his name notable. Veatch is remembered for recognizing oil and mineral signs around Sour Lake and the Beaumont region long before the Spindletop boom. On County.Land, his original-grantee record is useful because it connects a dry survey abstract to a person who understood land as geology, settlement, and opportunity all at once.
Oil & gas activity
No RRC oil & gas wells or active permits intersect A-787. 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-787. The Anderson 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.