Live data · Eagle Ford core
Karnes County sits in the South Texas Eagle Ford. 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 6,212 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.
Karnes Access
Click a well for operator, lease, API, and current status. The full Foundation runsheet for Karnes ships with abstracts, leasing intensity, ownership, and skip-traced contacts.
The county
Karnes City (county seat) · plus Kenedy, Runge, Falls City, Panna Maria
Created in 1854 from Bexar, Goliad, and San Patricio counties; named for Henry W. Karnes, Texas Revolution cavalry officer. Panna Maria, founded 1854, is the oldest permanent Polish settlement in the United States. Karnes is the heart of the Eagle Ford Shale Karnes Trough, the most prolific oil window in the play.
Public records
County seat: Karnes City · Courthouse: 101 N. Panna Maria Avenue, Karnes City, TX 78118
Deeds, oil & gas leases, mineral conveyances, releases, affidavits of heirship, probate filings, marriage and birth records.
Phone: (830) 780-3938
Civil suits affecting title (quiet title, partition, declaratory judgments), trespass to try title, condemnation, probate when contested.
Phone: (830) 780-2562
For sovereignty-to-current chain of title work in Karnes 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.