Burleson County (TX) Land & Surveyor Broadsheet Charter / Archive Ref: TX Corporate Charter (1974-1978 Burleson County Rural Tract Subdivider) Primary Recorder Entry: Burleson County Deed Records Doc #100237517 (264 Strict Reservations across 689 Grantor Deeds; Zero Exit Deeds)
Woodland Tracts, Inc. Est. 1974-1978 Active Grantor Era · TX Ref TX Corporate Charter (1974-1978 Burleson County Rural Tract Subdivider) · Burleson County Land Archive

Brazos Bottoms, Old San Antonio Road & Lake Somerville Archive · Burleson County (TX)

How Woodland Tracts, Inc. Surveyed and Platted the Lands of Burleson County.

Organized by Brazos Valley / Caldwell Rural Subdivision Group (1974-1978 Active Grantor Era), Woodland Tracts, Inc. assembled and subdivided tracts across Burleson County (TX), recorded in the county clerk's books at Burleson County Deed Records Doc #100237517 (264 Strict Reservations across 689 Grantor Deeds; Zero Exit Deeds). This broadsheet preserves the historical surveys, recorded plats, and deed index of the company.

Original Era
1974-1978 Active Grantor Era
County Seat & Archive
Burleson County (TX)
Primary Recorder Entry
Burleson County Deed Records Doc #100237517 (264 Strict Reservations across 689 Grantor Deeds; Zero Exit Deeds)
Archival Facsimiles Inspect Recorded Plats & Deeds → View scanned Burleson County Clerk and GLO instruments. County Recorder Index Search the Deed & Tract Table → Filter recorded instruments, survey calls, and reservation clauses.
Burleson County Clerk & Archival Facsimiles

Recorded Deeds, Survey Files & Historical Press for Woodland Tracts, Inc.

Inspect authentic county clerk instrument scans, General Land Office files, and archival newspaper facsimiles harvested for Woodland Tracts, Inc. in Burleson County (TX).

Burleson County Clerk Records · Vol. 218, Page 201

Woodland Tracts, Inc. - Recorded Warranty Deed (Vol. 218, Page 201)

Recorded county clerk instrument (Warranty Deed, Vol. 218, Page 201) for Woodland Tracts, Inc. in Burleson County, Texas.

Burleson County Clerk Records · Vol. 46, Page 40

Woodland Tracts, Inc. - Recorded Deed Of Trust (Vol. 46, Page 40)

Recorded county clerk instrument (Deed Of Trust, Vol. 46, Page 40) for Woodland Tracts, Inc. in Burleson County, Texas.

Texas Historical Newspaper Archive · ARK metapth1745900

The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 118, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 7, 1937

Archival Texas newspaper edition (The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 118, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 7, 1937) preserved in the Texas Digital Newspaper Archive (ARK Identifier: ark:/67531/metapth1745900), documenting regional land, townsite, and county history for the Burleson County corridor.

Chronicle of Burleson County

Land, Water, Surveys & the Story of Woodland Tracts, Inc.

Bounded by the Brazos River on the east and the Yegua Creek watershed on the south, Burleson County was one of the earliest Anglo-Texan settlements under Stephen F. Austin's contracts. After the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers impounded Lake Somerville on Yegua Creek in 1967 and the Giddings Austin Chalk horizontal drilling boom took off in the late 1970s, Caldwell and Somerville became a crossroads of lakeside subdivisions and multi-lateral oil and gas units.

  1. 1974-1978 Active Grantor Era TX Charter · TX Corporate Charter (1974-1978 Burleson County Rural Tract Subdivider)

    I. Founding & Land Assembly by Woodland Tracts, Inc.

    Organized by Brazos Valley / Caldwell Rural Subdivision Group (1974-1978 Active Grantor Era), Woodland Tracts, Inc. assembled parent acreage, survey tracts, and rights-of-way across Burleson County (TX), recorded in the county clerk's books at Burleson County Deed Records Doc #100237517 (264 Strict Reservations across 689 Grantor Deeds; Zero Exit Deeds).

    Primary lands surveyed and indexed to the company include Woodland Tracts Rural Acreage Subdivisions, Burleson County, Texas, laid out for regional townsite, agricultural, lakeside, or oil and gas development.

  2. Subdivision & Conveyance Era Burleson County Deed Records · Burleson County Deed Records Doc #100237517 (264 Strict Reservations across 689 Grantor Deeds; Zero Exit Deeds)

    II. Out-Conveyances, Plats & Recorded Deed Reservations

    As Woodland Tracts, Inc. platted and conveyed individual lots, farm tracts, and rights-of-way out of its parent holdings in Burleson County, deeds recorded in the county clerk's office included written reservations and exceptions: Underground mineral severances and 60-ft private road / utility access easements in gross across 264 deeds.

    Under TX property law, severed mineral estates, royalty interests, road strips, and easements created by written deed reservation remain in the chain of title long after the original land company finishes selling its surface lots.

  3. Present Day Burleson County Archival & Surveyor Cross-Reference

    III. Modern Map, Title & Mineral Record Legacy

    Today, when historians, landowners, surveyors, title examiners, or oil and gas landmen review tracts within Woodland Tracts Rural Acreage Subdivisions, Burleson County, Texas, the historical deeds and plats of Woodland Tracts, Inc. serve as key reference points in the Burleson County records.

    This broadsheet indexes the recorded instruments of Woodland Tracts, Inc. so researchers and land professionals can inspect Volume and Page citations, examine the recorded plats and deeds, and contact the archive desk.

County Recorder Cross-Reference

Historical Subdivision, Survey & Deed Index

Search and filter the verified Burleson County recorder entries, survey abstracts, and tract citations below for Woodland Tracts, Inc..

Historical cross-reference of Woodland Tracts, Inc. deeds, survey abstracts, and recorder citations in Burleson County
Subdivision / Instrument Unit Recorder Citation Parties & Tract Call Historical Survey & Reservation Notes Series
Parent Survey & Tract Vesting Into Woodland Tracts, Inc. Burleson County Deed Records (Prior to Burleson County Deed Records Doc #100237517 (264 Strict Reservations across 689 Grantor Deeds; Zero Exit Deeds)) Prior Survey Owners -> Woodland Tracts, Inc. (Woodland Tracts Rural Acreage Subdivisions, Burleson County, Texas) Parent conveyances vesting fee simple surface and mineral title into Woodland Tracts, Inc. prior to subdivision and out-conveyance. Vesting Into Company
Woodland Tracts Acreage Severance & Roadway Spine Burleson County Deed Records Doc #100237517 (1974-1978, 689 Grantor Deeds / 264 Strict Reservations) Woodland Tracts, Inc. -> Woodland Tracts Subdivision Grantees (Burleson County) 689 recorded conveyances carving rural acreage tracts across Burleson County with 264 strict mineral and access reservations and zero exit deeds. Deed Records
Field Notes & Historical Curiosities

Why the Burleson County Land Records Look the Way They Do Today

Every old subdivision map and deed book in Burleson County is a record of early surveying, local development, and state property law.

Giddings Field & Lake Somerville · 1967-1990

Where Stephen F. Austin's Brazos Leagues Meet the Austin Chalk

In the 1970s and 1980s, two booms happened simultaneously in Burleson County: recreational subdividers carved wooded Weekend tracts near Lake Somerville and Birch Creek (Woodland Tracts, Inc.), while independent Dallas and Houston petroleum companies (WCS Petroleum, Ada Oil Exploration, CAG Petroleum) assembled leases and reserved overriding and mineral royalties across the fractured Austin Chalk.

“Forty years after the first vertical Austin Chalk wells were drilled around Caldwell, modern 10,000-foot Eaglebine and Chalk laterals are re-entering the exact same surveys.”

Primary Surveys & Tracts Indexed:

  • Woodland Tracts Rural Acreage Subdivisions, Burleson County, Texas
  • Brazos Valley / Giddings Austin Chalk Gathering & Pipeline Corridor
Chain of Title Notes · Burleson County

Tracing 1970s Corporate Grantors Through Modern Horizontal Units

Because Burleson County experienced intense subdivision and oilfield trading between 1974 and 1990, hundreds of recorded warranty deeds and assignments left fractional mineral, royalty, and road-strip reservations in closely held Texas corporations that later dissolved once their initial project was completed.

“In the Giddings Field, a dissolved 1980s corporate grantor often holds the missing link in a 2026 horizontal unit.”

Recorded Reservation & Deed Clauses Documented:

  • Underground mineral severances and 60-ft private road / utility access easements in gross across 264 deeds
  • 6-Gate OCR Verified Zero-Exit-Deed status (689 Grantor deeds from 1974 to 1978 with 0 mineral exit deeds)
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Corporate Archive & Land Records Inquiry

Submit the Instrument Book and Page, Survey, or Parcel Number for Chain-of-Title and Corporate Records Verification.

This broadsheet is maintained as an Independent Historical Surveyor Atlas, Plat Archive & Chain-of-Title Research Index preserving the surveying, agricultural, mineral, and corporate history of Woodland Tracts, Inc. (TX Ref: TX Corporate Charter (1974-1978 Burleson County Rural Tract Subdivider)) in Burleson County.

Whether you are a local historian, a landowner researching the history of your tract or subdivision, a surveyor examining historical map books, or a landman, division order analyst, or title examiner with a question regarding historical corporate records, leases, or deeds, use the form here to reach the archive desk.

Archival Reference Citation:
Entity: Woodland Tracts, Inc. (Est. 1974-1978 Active Grantor Era · TX Ref TX Corporate Charter (1974-1978 Burleson County Rural Tract Subdivider))
Primary County Record: Burleson County Deed Records Doc #100237517 (264 Strict Reservations across 689 Grantor Deeds; Zero Exit Deeds) (Burleson County, TX)

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