Leon County (TX) Land & Surveyor Broadsheet Charter / Archive Ref: Plat Book 4, Pg 55 (Env. 129B) Primary Recorder Entry: Leon County Plat Book 4, Page 55 (Envelope 129B) & Deed Records Vol. 449, Page 390; Vol. 450, Page 499; Vol. 523, Page 127
Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County) Est. 1978-1982 Platting Era · TX Ref Plat Book 4, Pg 55 (Env. 129B) · Leon County Land Archive

Leon County Subdivision Plat & Lot History Broadsheet · Leon County (TX)

How Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County) Surveyed and Platted the Lands of Leon County.

Organized by W. P. Constructors, Inc. (Original Subdivider & Mineral Grantor) (1978-1982 Platting Era), Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County) assembled and subdivided tracts across Leon County (TX), recorded in the county clerk's books at Leon County Plat Book 4, Page 55 (Envelope 129B) & Deed Records Vol. 449, Page 390; Vol. 450, Page 499; Vol. 523, Page 127. This broadsheet preserves the historical surveys, recorded plats, and deed index of the company.

Original Era
1978-1982 Platting Era
County Seat & Archive
Leon County (TX)
Primary Recorder Entry
Leon County Plat Book 4, Page 55 (Envelope 129B) & Deed Records Vol. 449, Page 390; Vol. 450, Page 499; Vol. 523, Page 127
Archival Facsimiles Inspect Recorded Plats & Deeds → View scanned Leon County Clerk and GLO instruments. County Recorder Index Search the Deed & Tract Table → Filter recorded instruments, survey calls, and reservation clauses.
Leon County Clerk & Archival Facsimiles

Recorded Deeds, Survey Files & Historical Press for Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County)

Inspect authentic county clerk instrument scans, General Land Office files, and archival newspaper facsimiles harvested for Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County) in Leon County (TX).

Leon County Deed & Plat Records · Vol. 523, Page 127 & Plat Book 4, Page 55 (Envelope 129-B)

Forest Knoll Subdivision Recorded Deed & Plat Reference (Lot 5, Block 1 - 100% Mineral Reservation)

Recorded June 14, 1982 in Vol. 523, Page 127, Leon County Deed Records, referencing Forest Knoll Subdivision (Plat Book 4, Page 55, Envelope 129-B, Ebenezer Devinney Survey A-228 & William Little Survey A-506) and reserving 100% of oil, gas, and minerals.

Texas General Land Office · Parent Survey Plat (Ebenezer Devinney Survey, A-228)

Original General Land Office Survey Plat for the Forest Knoll Subdivision Parent Tract (A-228)

Original Texas General Land Office survey sketch and field notes for the Ebenezer Devinney Survey, A-228, Leon County, along the Trinity River where Forest Knoll Subdivision was platted.

General Land Office Resurvey Plat · Abstract A-228 (1869)

Ebenezer Devinney Survey 1869 Resurvey Plat & Trinity River Calls (Leon County)

Archival General Land Office resurvey map establishing the boundary calls and Trinity River frontage of the Ebenezer Devinney Survey, A-228, Leon County, Texas.

Texas Historical Newspaper Archive · ARK metapth1872440

The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1978

Archival Texas newspaper edition (The Teague Chronicle (Teague, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1978) preserved in the Texas Digital Newspaper Archive (ARK Identifier: ark:/67531/metapth1872440), documenting regional land, townsite, and county history for the Leon County corridor.

Chronicle of Leon County

Land, Water, Surveys & the Story of Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County)

Framed by the Trinity River on the east and the Navasota River on the west, Leon County sits along the historic Camino Real (Old San Antonio Road) and the giant 1830s Mexican eleven-league grant of Governor Jose Maria Viesca (A-30). In the 1960s through the 1980s, Houston and Dallas groups bought up post-oak savannah ranches around Centerville, Normangee, Marquez, and Oakwood to create country resort communities and weekend acreage tracts - unaware that 15,000 feet below those wooded lots lay the ultra-high-pressure Western Haynesville and Deep Bossier gas trend.

  1. 1978-1982 Platting Era TX Charter · Plat Book 4, Pg 55 (Env. 129B)

    I. Founding & Land Assembly by Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County)

    Organized by W. P. Constructors, Inc. (Original Subdivider & Mineral Grantor) (1978-1982 Platting Era), Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County) assembled parent acreage, survey tracts, and rights-of-way across Leon County (TX), recorded in the county clerk's books at Leon County Plat Book 4, Page 55 (Envelope 129B) & Deed Records Vol. 449, Page 390; Vol. 450, Page 499; Vol. 523, Page 127.

    Primary lands surveyed and indexed to the company include Forest Knoll Subdivision (Lots 1-149, Blocks 1-3, 64.7580 Acres & 16.9118 Acres in Reserve), Ebenezer Devinney Survey, A-228, Leon County, Texas, laid out for regional townsite, agricultural, lakeside, or oil and gas development.

  2. Subdivision & Conveyance Era Leon County Deed Records · Leon County Plat Book 4, Page 55 (Envelope 129B) & Deed Records Vol. 449, Page 390; Vol. 450, Page 499; Vol. 523, Page 127

    II. Out-Conveyances, Plats & Recorded Deed Reservations

    As Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County) platted and conveyed individual lots, farm tracts, and rights-of-way out of its parent holdings in Leon County, deeds recorded in the county clerk's office included written reservations and exceptions: 100% oil, gas, and mineral estate reserved to W. P. Constructors, Inc. in Forest Knoll Subdivision deeds (including Vol. 523, Page 127 and Vol. 455, Page 345).

    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 Leon 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 Forest Knoll Subdivision (Lots 1-149, Blocks 1-3, 64.7580 Acres & 16.9118 Acres in Reserve), Ebenezer Devinney Survey, A-228, Leon County, Texas, the historical deeds and plats of Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County) serve as key reference points in the Leon County records.

    This broadsheet indexes the recorded instruments of Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County) 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 Leon County recorder entries, survey abstracts, and tract citations below for Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County).

Historical cross-reference of Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County) deeds, survey abstracts, and recorder citations in Leon County
Subdivision / Instrument Unit Recorder Citation Parties & Tract Call Historical Survey & Reservation Notes Series
Parent Tract Vesting Into W. P. Constructors, Inc. (Forest Knoll & Survey A-228 / A-506) Leon County Deed Records Vol. 446, Page 210 & Vol. 453, Page 479 (1978) Prior Survey Owners -> W. P. Constructors, Inc. (E. Devinney Survey A-228 & Wm. Little Survey A-506) Vests fee simple surface and mineral title into W. P. Constructors, Inc. across the parent acreage in the Ebenezer Devinney Survey, A-228, and William Little Survey, A-506, Leon County. Vesting Into Company
Forest Knoll Subdivision Recorded Map & Plat (Lots 1-149, Blocks 1-3) Leon County Map/Plat Book 4, Page 55, Envelope 129B (Filed July 11, 1978, Doc #126994) W. P. Constructors, Inc. -> Forest Knoll Subdivision (64.7580 Acres & 16.9118 Acres in Reserve, A-228) Subdivision plat laying out 149 lots across Blocks 1, 2, and 3 (64.7580 acres) with 16.9118 acres in Reserve and dedicated internal road and utility easements. Plat Records
Forest Knoll Subdivision Covenants, Roadways & Reserve Restrictions Leon County Deed Records Vol. 449, Page 390 (Rec. July 20, 1978, Doc #127207) W. P. Constructors, Inc. -> Forest Knoll Subdivision (E. Devinney Survey, A-228 & Wm. Little Survey, A-506) Establishes subdivision restrictions, utility easements, and reserve tract designations across Blocks 1, 2, and 3 of Forest Knoll Subdivision. Deed Records
Forest Knoll Subdivision & Survey A-228 Out-Conveyance & Mineral Reservation Series Leon County Deed Records Vol. 450, Page 499; Vol. 455, Page 345; Vol. 466, Page 253; Vol. 523, Page 127 (1978-1982) W. P. Constructors, Inc. -> Subdivision & Acreage Grantees (E. Devinney Survey, A-228) Recorded warranty deeds conveying individual subdivision lots and acreage tracts out of W. P. Constructors, Inc. while reserving all oil, gas, and other minerals in and under the conveyed premises to the grantor corporation. Mineral Reservation
Field Notes & Historical Curiosities

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

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

Spanish & Republic Grants · Camino Real Corridor

Governor Viesca's Eleven Leagues & the Post-Oak Country Estates

Before Texas won its independence in 1836, Coahuila y Tejas Governor Jose Maria Viesca was granted eleven leagues of prime timber and grazing land spanning western Leon and Robertson counties. In the 1960s and 1970s, joint ventures and corporate developers carved the old post-oak ranches of the Viesca (A-30), John Belden (A-55), and Robert Rogers (A-228) surveys into resort lots and 10-to-40-acre recreational tracts, reserving the deep mineral estate in the corporate grantor.

“What sold in 1978 as a quiet post-oak deer-hunting tract off I-45 now sits directly above 350-degree, 12,000-PSI Western Haynesville horizontal gas wells.”

Primary Surveys & Tracts Indexed:

  • Forest Knoll Subdivision (Lots 1-149, Blocks 1-3, 64.7580 Acres & 16.9118 Acres in Reserve), Ebenezer Devinney Survey, A-228, Leon County, Texas
  • 42.91-Acre Mineral-Reserved Tracts, William Little & E. Devinney Surveys, Leon County, Texas
Deep Basin Geology · 15,000-Foot Bossier & Haynesville

How 1970s Surface-Only Subdivision Deeds Shaped Modern Gas Units

When 1970s and 1980s land companies conveyed rural tracts in Leon County, they frequently used 'Surface-Only' or 'Mineral-Excepted' warranty deeds. Because those severed mineral estates were never separately assessed on the county tax roll while unproduced, they remained quietly vested in the original corporate grantors and joint ventures across four decades of county clerk records.

“In Leon County, the chain of title for a modern 640-acre deep gas unit often turns on a single reservation paragraph typed in 1976 or 1984.”

Recorded Reservation & Deed Clauses Documented:

  • 100% oil, gas, and mineral estate reserved to W. P. Constructors, Inc. in Forest Knoll Subdivision deeds (including Vol. 523, Page 127 and Vol. 455, Page 345)
  • 16.9118 acres of platted Reserve tracts and utility/drainage easements in Forest Knoll Subdivision (Plat Book 4, Page 55, Envelope 129B; Restrictions Vol. 449, Page 390)
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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 Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County) (TX Ref: Plat Book 4, Pg 55 (Env. 129B)) in Leon 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.

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Entity: Forest Knoll Subdivision (Leon County) (Est. 1978-1982 Platting Era · TX Ref Plat Book 4, Pg 55 (Env. 129B))
Primary County Record: Leon County Plat Book 4, Page 55 (Envelope 129B) & Deed Records Vol. 449, Page 390; Vol. 450, Page 499; Vol. 523, Page 127 (Leon County, TX)

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