# Sell Mineral Rights in Dawson County, Montana | Berlin Royalties > Selling mineral rights in Dawson County, Montana? Berlin buys Red River and Bakken fringe minerals around Glendive, Richey, Lindsay. Honest valuation on a quiet county. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/montana/dawson-county/ Publisher: Berlin Royalties, a veteran-owned oil and gas mineral and royalty buyer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, buying for its own account since 2014. Call or text 918-984-1645. License: free to quote and cite with attribution to Berlin Royalties and a link to the source URL. Where We Buy · Montana · Dawson County ## Sell your Dawson County mineral rights. Glendive, Richey, Lindsay: a Bakken fringe that was tested and largely failed, over a Red River base, with a Northern Pacific checkerboard running through the middle. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Dawson County is honest about what it is: a quiet county with a Bakken story that did not pan out. The fringe around Richey was tested horizontally in 2012 to 2014, oil peaked at about 847,000 barrels in 2013, and it collapsed afterward. Today roughly 5 wells produce across 4 leases out of 368 drilled, with about 1,600 barrels and 607 Mcf in a recent month for the whole county. Four operators remain. We will not build you a story around that. If you own here, the realistic question is whether your acreage carries option value from future leasing rather than what your production is worth, and we will price it on that basis and show you the reasoning. Sometimes that number is small enough that the honest answer is to keep it. The defining title feature is the Northern Pacific land grant. The mainline runs through Glendive, so odd numbered sections were patented to the railroad with minerals reserved, and those reserved estates now sit with successor royalty and mineral companies rather than with families. The Yellowstone River crosses the county, raising riverbed and accretion questions on riparian tracts, and there is substantial BLM and state trust acreage south of the river. There are no reservation lands. Montana has no dormant mineral act, so whatever your family reserved here is still yours regardless of how long it has sat. Send us a legal description and we will tell you what is under it. Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Red River The county's most durable conventional pay. ### Bakken and Three Forks A fringe around Richey that was tested horizontally in 2012 to 2014 and largely did not work. ### Shallow gas An older shallow gas base that peaked in the late 1990s. Counties ## Communities we see in Dawson County title Glendive Richey Lindsay Bloomfield Intake Wherever your tract sits in Dawson County, we will research it free and value it with the work shown. 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See the [full county index](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/counties/) or the [Montana overview](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/montana/). ### The Montana mineral owner's guide Everything a Montana owner needs in one place: who owns what under state law, how royalties must be paid and by when, what a buyer can and cannot deduct, the tax treatment of a sale, and the deadlines that quietly cost people their minerals. Free, and no sign-up. [Read the Montana guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/montana/) Questions ## Straight answers for Dawson County owners Was the Bakken ever proven in Dawson County? Not commercially. A Bakken and Three Forks fringe around Richey was tested horizontally in 2012 to 2014. County oil peaked at about 847,000 barrels in 2013 and then collapsed. Today about 5 wells produce across 4 leases out of 368 wells drilled, with roughly 1,600 barrels of oil in a recent month for the entire county. We would rather tell you that than let you accept an offer based on a Bakken story. If the county is dormant, does my interest have any value? It may, but as acreage rather than as income. Non-producing minerals carry option value based on what could be drilled and what nearby leasing is doing, not on current production. In a county with five producing wells, that option value is modest and speculative, and we will price it that way and explain the reasoning. Sometimes the honest answer is that the interest is not worth the cost of the paperwork, and we will tell you that too. How does the Northern Pacific land grant affect Dawson County title? Dawson sits on the Northern Pacific mainline through Glendive, so the land grant checkerboard is the defining title feature. Odd numbered sections were patented to the railroad with minerals reserved, and those reserved estates are now held by successor royalty and mineral entities rather than by local families. A title search that assumes a homestead pattern will reach the wrong answer in alternating sections. ## Before you sign anything in Dawson County The things owners here most often wish they had read first. All free, none of it gated. - [How mineral rights are valued](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/mineral-rights-value/), including the rule of thumb people quote and why it is usually wrong - [Selling mineral rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-mineral-rights/) and [selling oil and gas royalties](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/sell-oil-and-gas-royalties/), with the real process and timeline - [The Pugh clause](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/pugh-clause/), the single most valuable sentence you can negotiate into a lease - [What a farm out is](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/farmout-agreements/), and why your operator suddenly changed - [The rule of capture](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/rule-of-capture/), and why a neighbor's well can legally drain your minerals - [Non-participating royalty interests](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/non-participating-royalty-interest/), if your deed carved one out - [Executive rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/executive-rights/), if somebody else signs the lease that binds your minerals - [Surface owner rights](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/surface-owner-rights/), if you own the ground and someone else owns what is under it - [Questions to ask a buyer](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/questions-to-ask/) and [what happens if you want out after signing](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/can-i-back-out-of-a-mineral-rights-sale/) Free Valuation ## Find out what your Dawson County minerals are worth. 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