# Sell Mineral Rights in Burke County, North Dakota | Berlin Royalties > Selling mineral rights in Burke County, North Dakota? Berlin buys Bakken and Madison minerals and royalties around Bowbells, Powers Lake, Flaxton and countywide. Free valuation. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/north-dakota/burke-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 · North Dakota · Burke County ## Sell your Burke County mineral rights. Bowbells, Powers Lake, Flaxton: a thinning Bakken flank layered over Madison conventional pools that have been producing since long before the shale era. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Burke County runs along the Canadian border in northwest North Dakota, and it holds two entirely different assets under the same county line. The southwest corner catches the thinning edge of the Bakken. The rest of the county produces from Madison Group conventional pools at Northwest McGregor, Flaxton, and Portal that predate the shale era by decades. Those are not the same investment and should not carry the same multiple. Bakken flank acreage is priced off modern well decline and whatever remaining locations the spacing unit supports. Madison stripper production is priced off a long, shallow, predictable tail with essentially no development upside. Continental, EOG, Chord, Petro-Hunt, Hunt, Cobra, Eagle Operating, and about twenty other operators carry production here. Burke has no tribal lands. It does have federal refuge surface and classic homestead era severances, so split estate is common and worth establishing before anyone quotes a price. Send us whatever paperwork you have, or just a county and a family name, and we will tell you what you own, what it is worth, and whether you should keep it. Drilling Activity · Updated 2026-10-02 ## What's happening in Burke County right now Active Rigs 1 Running for SILVER HILL ENERGY PARTNERS Permits, Last 90 Days 33 Most active: FORMENTERA PARTNERS, HEBERDEV OPERATING, LLC, HUNT Completions, Last 90 Days 0 New wells turned to sales in the county. County totals. Source: Enverus, as of 2026-10-02. Rigs are currently active; permits are those approved in the last 90 days; completions are wells reporting first production in the last 90 days, which lags by state. A zero does not mean nothing is happening, only that nothing was reported in that window. Activity like this is exactly what moves mineral value. If it is happening near you, find out what your interest is worth before you take anyone's offer. Formations & Plays ## What produces here ### Bakken and Three Forks The southwest edge of the county, thinning toward Mountrail and Williams. Real but marginal compared with the core. ### Madison Group, Mission Canyon Legacy conventional pools at Northwest McGregor, Flaxton, and the Portal area. Shallow, long lived, and still paying. Counties ## Communities we see in Burke County title Bowbells Powers Lake Flaxton Columbus Portal Lignite Wherever your tract sits in Burke 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 [North Dakota overview](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/north-dakota/). ### The North Dakota mineral owner's guide Everything a North Dakota 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 North Dakota guide](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/guide/north-dakota/) Questions ## Straight answers for Burke County owners Is anyone drilling in Burke County right now? Not currently. Burke has no rigs and no recent permits in the public window. Roughly 467 wells are producing out of about 2,100 drilled, and county output peaked in 2014. That does not make an interest here worthless, but it does mean the value sits in the existing production tail rather than in undrilled locations, and it should be priced that way. What is my Burke County mineral interest actually worth? It depends heavily on whether you are on the Bakken flank in the southwest or on the older Madison production. A Bakken royalty with a modern well behind it is valued off decline. A Madison stripper interest is valued off a long, flat, predictable tail and is worth less per dollar of current income because there is no development upside behind it. We will tell you which one you have and show the arithmetic for each. There is a wildlife refuge on the land my minerals are under. Does that matter? Possibly. Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge covers roughly 26,900 acres in Burke and part of Des Lacs Refuge extends here as well, which creates federal surface with variable mineral status underneath. Split estate is common in this county and it is worth establishing whether your minerals are fee, federal, or state before anyone quotes you a number. We will run that for free. ## Before you sign anything in Burke 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 Burke County minerals are worth. 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