Midland CAD 2025 Report: 419,660 Mineral Interest Accounts on PDF Page 25

Direct answer for mineral owners

Midland CAD’s official 2025 Mass Appraisal Report states on physical PDF page 25 that industrial appraisers are responsible for approximately 419,660 mineral interest accounts. The source counts accounts, not unique owners, tracts, wells, leases, producing interests, or acres, and does not label the figure as a current live-account total. It does not decide an account-specific appraisal, title, tax, value, offer, production, or royalty question.

Key takeaways for mineral owners

• The statement appears in the Industrial Valuation Process section on physical PDF page 25 of the official 35-page report.
• The report says approximately 419,660; it does not present the figure as an exact current inventory.
• The counted unit is mineral interest accounts, not unique owners, tracts, wells, leases, producing interests, or net mineral acres.
• The district’s current Publications, Open Records, and Mineral Property pages are separate source lanes and should not be silently merged.
• A report-wide responsibility statement does not validate an individual account, title, appraisal, tax, private sale value, offer, production, royalty, or contractor performance.

Report statement, not an owner or property result. This guide locates and interprets one statement in an official Midland Central Appraisal District report. It does not identify a mineral owner, account, tract, well, lease, acreage position, title interest, appraisal, tax result, sale value, offer, production result, royalty amount, or contractor-performance finding. MRX provides educational information and resources only and does not buy mineral rights.

The direct answer is: the official 2025 Midland CAD Mass Appraisal Report states on physical PDF page 25 that industrial appraisers are responsible for the valuation of approximately 419,660 mineral interest accounts.

Read every part of that sentence. The source says approximately, not exactly. Its counted unit is mineral interest accounts, not owners, tracts, wells, leases, producing interests, or net mineral acres. The statement appears in a 2025 report and does not label the figure as a live, continuously updated account total.

Direct answer: source, page, wording, and boundary

Evidence field	Controlled answer
Issuer	Midland Central Appraisal District
Document	2025 Mass Appraisal Report
Section	Industrial Valuation Process → Appraisal Responsibility
Locator	Physical PDF page 25 of 35
Source wording to preserve	Approximately 419,660 mineral interest accounts
Responsible group named by the report	Industrial appraisers
What the statement does not supply	A current live-account status, unique-owner count, tract count, well count, lease count, acreage total, or account-specific result

This is a narrow page-locator answer. It helps a reader find the statement and avoid changing its denominator. It is not a substitute for a current official account record, title review, appraisal analysis, qualified tax review, or transaction evidence.

Find the statement on physical PDF page 25

The downloaded report contains 35 physical PDF pages. On physical page 25, the heading sequence is Industrial Valuation Process, Introduction, and Appraisal Responsibility. The mineral-interest sentence appears after the report describes approximate counts for industrial real-property parcels, tangible personal-property parcels, and utility parcels.

The relevant sentence says the industrial appraisers are responsible for valuation of the mineral interest accounts in accordance with a Texas Comptroller manual named by the report. This article does not import that manual, interpret its rules, or infer how an individual account was appraised. The source locator establishes where the statement appears; it does not validate an account-level method or result.

“Physical PDF page 25” means the twenty-fifth page object in the retrieved 35-page file. It is not represented here as a printed internal page number. That distinction prevents a common citation failure when a PDF’s viewer position, printed footer, table of contents, and extracted page index do not align.

Preserve “approximately” rather than silently normalizing the count

The report qualifies the account count with approximately. Removing that word would create a stronger claim than the source makes.

The controlled interpretation is therefore:

• the report presents an approximate figure;
• the figure belongs to the report’s stated 2025 context;
• the cited sentence does not declare an “as of” timestamp for a live account database;
• the statement should not be treated as proof that the same total exists today; and
• arithmetic performed on 419,660 would not make the underlying approximation exact.

An approximation can still be useful for locating and understanding a source statement. It cannot support false precision. If a current total matters, the necessary evidence is a current official dataset or response that defines the count, date, status, inclusions, exclusions, and unit of observation.

“Accounts” are the denominator, not owners, tracts, or wells

The report’s denominator is mineral interest accounts. The cited sentence does not provide a one-to-one mapping between an account and another real-world unit.

Do not transform the report count into any of these claims:

Unsupported conversion	Why the cited statement cannot support it
419,660 unique mineral owners	The statement counts accounts and supplies no owner-deduplication rule.
419,660 tracts or properties	It supplies no parcel, tract, or property crosswalk.
419,660 wells	It supplies no well identifier or account-to-well relationship.
419,660 leases	It supplies no lease definition or lease-to-account mapping.
419,660 producing interests	It does not say every account is producing.
419,660 net mineral acres	It supplies no acreage field or conversion factor.
419,660 current live accounts	It does not label the figure as a current database status or provide a live “as of” timestamp.

One owner can be associated with more than one account, and an account label can be organized differently from the ownership, tract, well, lease, or acreage questions a reader is trying to answer. This guide does not assume any particular relationship; it records that the cited statement does not define one.

Keep the 2025 report separate from current district routes

The district’s current Publications page links the 2025 Mass Appraisal Report. That is useful DOCUMENT-IDENTITY and routing evidence. A publication link does not prove that every statement in the linked document is a live operational count, still accurate without qualification, or suitable for a different decision.

The Open Records page separately lists routes to certified and preliminary rolls, notices, and mineral files. Those materials occupy a different evidence lane. A current file may have its own year, status, fields, account conventions, byte identity, and limitations. Its existence does not retroactively turn a report-wide approximate statement into an owner, title, appraisal, or value conclusion.

The district’s current Mineral Property page supplies another separate statement about appraisal approaches. The companion guide, Midland CAD Mineral Property Page: Three Approaches and the Sufficient-Data Condition, owns that current-page job. This article does not silently merge the three-approach statement into the report count or treat one source as proof of the other.

Three distinct source questions result:

1. Report question: What did the 2025 report state, and where does the statement appear?
2. Current-record question: What does a current official roll, notice, mineral file, or account response show for its defined year and status?
3. Property-specific question: What do account, title, lease, production, appraisal, tax, and transaction evidence establish for a particular interest?

Answering the first question does not answer the second or third.

Confirm the issuer and domain without treating routing as validation

The Texas Comptroller Midland county directory routes appraisal-district users to midcad.org. That supports current issuer and domain identification.

Domain provenance is not the same as claim validity. The directory does not endorse every district publication, verify the 419,660 figure, establish that the count is current, prove a contractor assignment, or decide an account, appraisal, tax, title, or transaction question.

This separation matters for answer engines as well as human readers. A trustworthy citation chain should identify who published a source and where it lives, then separately state what the source actually supports and what remains unresolved.

The responsibility statement is not a contractor-performance finding

Physical page 25 says industrial appraisers are responsible for valuation of the mineral interest accounts. In the next resource subsection, the report says Midland CAD contracts with Pritchard & Abbott, Inc. for properties where the district lacks available personnel or resources.

Those are issuer statements within the report. They do not independently prove the terms of a contract, which accounts were assigned, who performed a specific task, whether the workload was reasonable, whether the work complied with every applicable standard, or whether an account result was correct.

The count also does not measure people. It cannot be divided by a staffing number to produce a validated workload, productivity, quality, or performance metric without definitions and assignment evidence the cited sentence does not supply.

The account count is not a mineral-rights value

The number 419,660 describes an approximate count of a source-labeled unit. It is not a price, appraisal result, production volume, royalty amount, ownership percentage, or net mineral acreage figure.

Do not multiply, divide, or benchmark a property-specific value from the count. A private mineral transaction can depend on the exact interest conveyed, title, effective date, lease terms, production history, deductions, operator and well data, commodity assumptions, buyer terms, and contract language. None of those inputs appears in the count statement.

Keep these decisions in separate lanes:

• Report interpretation: preserve the issuer, document, date context, physical page, wording, and denominator.
• Account research: identify the official record, year, status, fields, and account identifier without exposing sensitive data.
• Title review: determine what recorded instruments and legal chain establish.
• Appraisal or tax review: use the applicable notice, record, rule, deadline, and qualified guidance.
• Transaction review: evaluate the exact interest, evidence date, assumptions, buyer terms, and written agreement.

The Texas Mineral Rights Guide provides the broader state context. It does not convert this report-wide count into a property result.

Separate provenance from validity

Claim ID	Evidence label	Source role	Supported observation
C282-01	SITE-IDENTITY	Texas Comptroller Midland directory	The current state directory routes Midland appraisal-district users to midcad.org.
C282-02	DOCUMENT-IDENTITY	Midland CAD Publications page	The current page links the official 2025 Mass Appraisal Report.
C282-03	PDF-OBSERVATION	2025 report, physical PDF page 25	The Industrial Valuation Process section contains the mineral-interest-account statement.
C282-04	APPROXIMATION-LABEL	Report physical PDF page 25	The report qualifies the figure as approximately 419,660.
C282-05	DENOMINATOR-LABEL	Report physical PDF page 25	The source unit is mineral interest accounts.
C282-06	RESPONSIBILITY-STATEMENT	Report physical PDF page 25	The report says industrial appraisers are responsible for valuation of those accounts.
C282-07	DENOMINATOR-BOUNDARY	Source wording	The statement supplies no conversion to owners, tracts, wells, leases, producing interests, or net mineral acres.
C282-08	PAGE-LOCATOR	Retrieved 35-page PDF	The relevant statement is on physical PDF page 25.
C282-09	ROUTING-ONLY	Midland CAD Open Records page	Rolls, notices, and mineral files are listed through a separate official route.
C282-10	CURRENT-PAGE-SEPARATION	Midland CAD Mineral Property page	A separate current web page describes appraisal approaches and does not silently update the report count.
C282-11	SOURCE-HASH	Retrieved PDF and page rendering	File hashes preserve the reviewed byte identities.
C282-12	PRIVACY-BOUNDARY	Article research procedure	No owner, property, account, roll, notice, or mineral-file search was performed and no record was reproduced.

Provenance answers who issued the report, where the file was found, which bytes were reviewed, and where the statement appears. Validity asks whether the statement is accurate, complete, current, and fit for a specific decision. Strong provenance does not automatically answer validity.

File identity and reproducible locator evidence

The report retrieved for this review is 392,040 bytes, contains 35 physical PDF pages, and has SHA-256 18f2c391a8618b1713280f7d2dfa3f78c0f5770c924133314d9e8c0636b5e1a2.

Physical PDF page 25 was rendered and visually reviewed independently. That rendering has SHA-256 197d45c775b70fc23ea92ece9943c2ae34669e8fbe5b28b38c535b7836fce439. The page rendering is evidence used in the review workflow; this article does not reproduce the official page or any account record.

The controlled Publications response was 10,236 bytes with SHA-256 ecfab3416d57144355170bdea0d5dbfcc087ee932bdae62c0da46545d7d987de. The Open Records response was 9,988 bytes with SHA-256 9a5465430a510a716ab162a0ad2287ea83da12d677bd17456ef525272d4af482. The Mineral Property response was 669 bytes with SHA-256 dbab9120e18eb86b81130445a5aa12aa959ca5a0af162ba2847248bee58ce1d5. The Comptroller directory response was 121,531 bytes with SHA-256 236fb5f5686a90b91c02047d50361f8639c498facad7ecb4cc3d973f6e28d813.

These hashes make source drift detectable. They do not certify that the source statements are true, current, complete, or suitable for an account-level decision.

A neutral follow-up checklist for a current account question

If the report statement leads to a current account question, preserve the evidence boundary:

1. Identify the exact official route and issuer.
2. Record the file or response year, status, retrieval date, URL, byte count, and hash.
3. Determine how that source defines an account and whether it states inclusions or exclusions.
4. Keep owner identity, tract identity, well identity, lease identity, acreage, and account identity as separate fields unless the source itself supplies a supported crosswalk.
5. Do not expose taxpayer numbers, signatures, banking data, Social Security numbers, or other sensitive identifiers.
6. Ask a qualified professional about legal, title, appraisal, protest, or tax questions rather than inferring an answer from a report-wide count.
7. For a private transaction, evaluate the exact interest and current evidence rather than treating an administrative account count as a sale-value input.

The result should be a source inventory, not a predetermined conclusion.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Midland CAD state the 419,660 mineral interest account figure?

The statement appears in the Industrial Valuation Process section on physical PDF page 25 of the official 2025 Midland CAD Mass Appraisal Report.

Does Midland CAD report exactly 419,660 current mineral accounts?

No. The report uses approximately and does not label the statement as a current live-account inventory.

Does 419,660 mineral interest accounts mean 419,660 unique owners?

No. The statement counts mineral interest accounts and supplies no conversion to unique owners, tracts, wells, leases, producing interests, or net mineral acres.

Does the report count establish a mineral-rights value or sale price?

No. A report-wide account count does not establish an individual appraisal, title, tax, private mineral-rights sale value, buyer offer, production result, or royalty amount.

Where should I look for current Midland CAD rolls or mineral files?

Use the district’s Open Records page for its current official routes to rolls, notices, and mineral files. Verify the year, status, fields, and file identity before drawing an account-specific conclusion.

Practical conclusion for mineral owners

The official 2025 Midland CAD Mass Appraisal Report places the statement on physical PDF page 25: industrial appraisers are responsible for valuation of approximately 419,660 mineral interest accounts. Preserve the approximation, the account denominator, the report context, and the page locator. Do not turn the figure into a count of owners, tracts, wells, leases, producing interests, acres, current live accounts, or current ownership. Do not use it as an account-specific appraisal, title, tax, sale-value, offer, production, royalty, or contractor-performance conclusion.

This article provides general educational information, not legal, tax, appraisal, investment, or transaction advice. Confirm current records and obtain qualified advice for a specific interest.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Midland CAD state the 419,660 mineral interest account figure?

The statement appears in the Industrial Valuation Process section on physical PDF page 25 of the official 2025 Midland CAD Mass Appraisal Report.

Does Midland CAD report exactly 419,660 current mineral accounts?

No. The report uses the qualifier approximately and does not label the statement as a current live-account inventory.

Does 419,660 mineral interest accounts mean 419,660 unique owners?

No. The cited statement counts mineral interest accounts and supplies no conversion to unique owners, tracts, wells, leases, producing interests, or net mineral acres.

Does the report count establish a mineral-rights value or sale price?

No. A report-wide account count does not establish an individual appraisal, title, tax, private mineral-rights sale value, buyer offer, production result, or royalty amount.

Where should I look for current Midland CAD rolls or mineral files?

Use the district’s Open Records page for its current official routes to rolls, notices, and mineral files, and verify the year, status, fields, and file identity before drawing any account-specific conclusion.

Sources reviewed for this article

• Midland Central Appraisal District 2025 Mass Appraisal Report (accessed 2026-08-29)
• Midland Central Appraisal District Publications page (accessed 2026-08-29)
• Midland Central Appraisal District Open Records page (accessed 2026-08-29)
• Midland Central Appraisal District Mineral Property page (accessed 2026-08-29)
• Texas Comptroller Midland county directory (accessed 2026-08-29)