# Sell Mineral Rights in Stark County, North Dakota | Berlin Royalties > Selling mineral rights in Stark County, North Dakota? Berlin buys Tyler, Madison, Red River and Bakken fringe minerals around Dickinson, Belfield, Richardton. Free valuation. Source: https://www.berlinroyalties.com/north-dakota/stark-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 · Stark County ## Sell your Stark County mineral rights. Dickinson, Belfield, Richardton: legacy Tyler and Madison production on the southern basin margin, with a marginal Bakken fringe and a lot of town lot minerals. [Get a Free Valuation](https://www.berlinroyalties.com/free-valuation/) or call or text [918-984-1645](tel:9189841645) Stark County is Dickinson, and Dickinson is a conventional oil town rather than a shale one. The Tyler Formation at Dickinson field, plus Madison, Red River, and Duperow, carried this county through a peak in 1975 that the shale era never approached. The Bakken is present on the southern margin but thin, and there is currently no drilling: no rigs, no permits in the public window, and 247 producing wells against 929 drilled. We will tell you that up front because it changes what your interest is worth. Value in Stark County sits in existing production with a long shallow decline, not in undrilled inventory. Anyone offering you a Bakken multiple on Stark County acreage is either not looking or hoping you will not. Two local features shape the title work. Dickinson's size means a lot of Stark County minerals sit under town lots and subdivisions, producing very small decimals and a lot of owners per section. And the Northern Pacific land grant checkerboard runs the mainline corridor, so odd sections carry reserved railroad minerals now held by corporate successors. We buy small interests, we run our own title, and we pay all closing costs. Send a check stub or just a family name and a section, and we will tell you what is there. Drilling Activity · Updated 2026-10-02 ## What's happening in Stark County right now Active Rigs 0 Permits, Last 90 Days 3 Most active: MURFIN DRILLING COMPANY INC 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 ### Tyler The Dickinson field sits on the Dickinson to Fryburg Tyler trend, and Tyler production here predates the shale era by decades. ### Madison, Red River, and Duperow Conventional pools across the southern basin margin, long lived and shallow declining. ### Bakken and Three Forks Present but marginal on this edge of the basin. Not a core position. Counties ## Communities we see in Stark County title Dickinson Belfield Richardton Taylor Gladstone South Heart Wherever your tract sits in Stark 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 Stark County owners Is Stark County part of the Bakken? Only marginally. Stark sits on the southern basin margin where the Bakken is thin and has not supported sustained horizontal development. The county's real production history is conventional: Tyler at Dickinson, plus Madison, Red River, and Duperow. Oil production peaked in 1975. Roughly 247 wells produce out of 929 drilled, and there are no rigs and no recent permits. An offer that prices Stark County acreage on Bakken comparables is not being honest with you. I own minerals under a lot in Dickinson. Is that different from rural minerals? Somewhat, and it is worth knowing. Dickinson is the largest city in this part of the state, so a meaningful share of Stark County minerals sit under town lots and subdivided tracts. That produces smaller decimals and far more owners per section than in the rural counties, which makes each individual interest small and makes most buyers ignore them. We buy small interests and pay all closing costs. What is the Northern Pacific checkerboard and does it affect me? The Northern Pacific Railroad received a land grant along its mainline, and odd numbered sections in that corridor were patented with the minerals reserved. Those reserved minerals passed to corporate successors rather than to homesteading families. It runs through the mainline corridor in Stark County. It matters because it changes who owns what in alternating sections, and a title search that does not account for it can reach the wrong answer. ## Before you sign anything in Stark 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 Stark County minerals are worth. 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