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Bench Lane 05 · GIS & Deed Plotting

GIS Abstract & Leasehold Mapping Work.

Every complex runsheet, acquisition data room, and horizontal drilling unit needs a land mapper who can plot metes-and-bounds calls in varas or chains, reconcile Texas General Land Office (GLO) abstract boundaries, and turn ownership worksheets into clean GIS shapefiles and exhibit plats.

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Nothing is promised. Signing puts your counties and experience on our bench list so we can reach out when an operator or broker sends a matching request.

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Deliverables in this lane

Deed call to polygon.

Metes-and-bounds COGO plotting, leasehold status heatmaps, horizontal lateral allocation strips, and ROW alignment exhibits.

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Tell us the county, scope, tract count, and when you need the work started.

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To GIS landmen, deed plotters, and lease mapping specialists

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Re What we record when you sign for GIS and mapping work

  1. Metes-and-bounds and vara plotting (COGO). In Texas, Louisiana, and Appalachia, tracts are described by metes and bounds, Spanish grants, or early headrights rather than rectangular quarter-sections. Note on your sheet whether you plot bearings, distances, varas, and creek meanders directly from deed text.

  2. State land grids and public layers. List the state spatial layers you work with regularly: Texas GLO original survey abstracts and RRC well/pipeline layers, BLM PLSS township-range-section grids in New Mexico and Wyoming, Oklahoma section-township-range grids, and Louisiana parish township/irregular section layers.

  3. Leasehold status and NRI ownership maps. Operators and acquisition teams ask for color-coded tract maps tied directly to the Mineral Ownership Report (MOR): leased vs. unleased tracts, primary-term expiration windows, depth-severed HBP benches, and competitor leasehold positions.

  4. Deliverable formats. Tell us which GIS packages and deliverable formats you produce (geodatabases, shapefiles, GeoJSON, KMZ, or print-ready PDF exhibit plats for pooling, unitization, and surface easement exhibits).

Tip for signing the sheet: In the counties box below, list the specific counties where you have worked records, not just a state abbreviation.

Where hands in this lane get called out

Texas Abstract & Headright Plotting
Plotting partitioned tracts, railroad strips, and metes-and-bounds calls inside East Texas headrights, South Texas Spanish grants, and Permian railroad blocks.
Horizontal Unit & PSA Plats
Mapping multi-section horizontal laterals, take-point buffers, tract participation acreage, and production sharing agreement (PSA) tracts.
Solar, Wind & ROW Corridor Maps
Combining surface parcel ownership, mineral drill-site reservation zones, existing pipeline/transmission encumbrances, and substation tie-in corridors.

Before you sign

  • Nothing is promised. When a title job fits your counties and experience, we get in touch.
  • Who runs it. Independent landmen who run this board and contractor bench.
  • Designations. Recorded as you report them.
  • Your details. Used to read your sheet and match you to work. See the privacy policy.

Bench sign-up sheet · GIS & Mapping

Title landmen: put your name and counties down. Operators and brokers: switch to "A company that needs landmen" to request a title crew.

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