Midland CAD Open Records Page: Mineral Files, Rolls, and Notices as Separate Source Routes

Direct answer for mineral owners

Midland CAD does not place every mineral-related item under one Open Records heading. The 2026 Preliminary Mineral Roll appears under Preliminary Rolls, while the 2026 Midland Certified Mineral Roll and 2026 Mineral Notices appear under Mineral Files. Those labels and links establish official routing only. They do not prove record contents, current completeness, ownership, title, appraisal accuracy, tax results, mineral value, production, or royalties.

Key takeaways for mineral owners

• The 2026 Preliminary Mineral Roll appears under Preliminary Rolls, not under the Mineral Files heading.
• The 2026 Midland Certified Mineral Roll and 2026 Mineral Notices appear under Mineral Files.
• The preliminary roll and notices links target 7z files; the certified mineral roll link targets a ZIP file.
• A displayed label and target URL establish a source route, not archive contents, owner identity, property applicability, completeness, or legal effect.
• The request-form link label and the linked PDF title differ; this guide preserves that mismatch instead of silently correcting it.

Official routing, not a property result. This guide records where Midland Central Appraisal District places selected links on its Open Records page. It does not identify a mineral owner, account, property, tract, well, lease, acreage position, title interest, appraisal, tax result, protest outcome, sale value, offer, production result, royalty amount, or legal conclusion. MRX provides educational information and resources only and does not buy mineral rights.

The direct answer is: Midland CAD’s current Open Records page places the 2026 Preliminary Mineral Roll under Preliminary Rolls. It places the 2026 Midland Certified Mineral Roll and 2026 Mineral Notices under Mineral Files.

That hierarchy matters. The page also has a Certified Rolls heading, but the retrieved page does not place the certified mineral roll under that heading. A useful source note should preserve the page’s displayed structure instead of silently reorganizing similar-sounding links.

Direct answer: the current route map

Page area	Mineral-related link observed	Target suffix	What the route establishes
Preliminary Rolls	2026 Preliminary Mineral Roll	.7z	The displayed page label, section placement, and target route
Mineral Files	2026 Midland Certified Mineral Roll	.zip	The displayed page label, section placement, and target route
Mineral Files	2026 Mineral Notices	.7z	The displayed page label, section placement, and target route
Open Records Request Form	Open Records Request From	.pdf	A separate request-form link

The table is a route inventory. It is not an archive-content inventory. No linked roll or notice archive was downloaded, opened, extracted, sampled, or searched for this article.

Preserve the heading hierarchy instead of normalizing it

The visible Open Records page uses several section headings, including Certified Rolls, Preliminary Rolls, Mineral Files, and Miscellaneous Files. Similar terms appear in different places, which makes silent cleanup tempting and unsafe.

For example, the certified mineral roll sounds like it could belong under Certified Rolls. On the retrieved page, it does not. The 2026 Midland Certified Mineral Roll appears under Mineral Files. The 2026 Preliminary Mineral Roll appears under Preliminary Rolls. The page also places 2026 Mineral Notices under Mineral Files rather than under a separate Notices heading.

This guide does not assert that one classification is better than another. It records the observed structure so a reader or researcher can reproduce the route. If Midland CAD changes the page later, the current page should be rechecked rather than forcing a new layout into the prior evidence.

The machine-readable Open Records WordPress record identifies page ID 5797, slug open-records, title Open Records, and modified_gmt value 2026-08-17T13:07:37. That timestamp is WordPress metadata. It is not represented here as a visible publication date, an effective date for every link, or proof that each target file changed at that time.

A link establishes navigation, not contents or validity

An official-domain link can support a narrow provenance statement: this is the route Midland CAD displayed when the page was retrieved. The link does not, by itself, answer what is inside an archive.

Do not convert a displayed link into any of these conclusions:

Unsupported conclusion	Missing evidence
A record exists for a named owner	No archive search, account match, owner-deduplication method, or current district response
A file applies to a particular property	No account, parcel, legal-description, tract, or property crosswalk
The archive is complete or current	No completeness statement, field dictionary, inclusion rule, exclusion rule, or as-of validation
The file proves mineral ownership or title	No title chain, instrument review, conveyance interpretation, or qualified title determination
A notice was delivered or has a legal effect	No recipient match, delivery evidence, deadline review, protest record, or governing-rule analysis
A roll establishes private mineral value	No transaction interest, lease, production, reserve, timing, risk, or offer evidence
A filename proves appraisal accuracy	No account-specific appraisal record, method review, supporting data, or error analysis

The same rule applies to apparently precise filenames. A target ending in .zip or .7z identifies the linked path’s archive suffix. It does not establish member names, schemas, record counts, data quality, security, completeness, or fitness for a particular question.

Keep preliminary and certified labels attached to their sources

The words preliminary and certified are not interchangeable. The page labels one mineral roll preliminary and another certified. This guide preserves those labels and does not reconcile them into one generic “mineral roll.”

That distinction still does not explain every operational detail a reader might need. The page label alone does not define:

• the file’s effective date or data cutoff;
• the certification scope represented by the file;
• whether a later replacement exists;
• member filenames or field definitions;
• confidential-field treatment;
• account-status meanings;
• correction, supplement, or amendment handling; or
• whether a particular record is present.

Those questions require the target artifact, its documentation, or a current response from the responsible office. They cannot be answered by label similarity.

The request-form label and PDF title do not match

The Open Records page displays the link text Open Records Request From. The linked one-page PDF is titled Request for Information in its visible page content.

This guide preserves both observations. It does not silently change From to Form, claim the displayed label is intentional, or infer that the PDF is invalid because the strings differ.

The PDF offers two choices: inspect information or receive copies. It asks the requester to list the specific information and number of copies so records may be identified. It also contains blank requester contact fields. Those are form-layout observations, not evidence that responsive records exist, that a request will be granted, what a response will contain, how long it will take, or what cost may apply.

The controlled PDF retrieval was 263,637 bytes with SHA-256 c96a51aeb3984b0c551861727f8cd5465d21b939bac8789afc97d7a91c1b2ee0. Physical page 1 was rendered and visually reviewed. The render has SHA-256 6f301e8c13b8f6169d04f5941d565530e99d661734b5eb22aab692ebea393c4a. The hashes bind retrieved bytes; they do not validate a response, record, cost, timing, or result.

Contact routes are separate from file routes

Midland CAD’s current Department Emails record separately labels Minerals and Open Records Request contact routes. The controlled record identifies page ID 5557, slug contact-us, title Department Emails, and modified_gmt value 2026-08-20T20:16:05.

Those labels can help a reader locate a current contact path. They do not prove which team owns a particular question, whether an email was received, whether a record exists, or what conclusion an office will reach. Use the current page rather than copying a contact address from an old article into a long-lived checklist.

Publications is another evidence lane

Midland CAD’s Publications record is a separate official route. It lists annual reports, mass appraisal reports, reappraisal plans, and other documents. It is useful for document discovery, but it does not replace the Open Records page or validate a linked roll, notice, or request response.

The companion guide Midland CAD Mineral Property Page: Three Approaches and the Sufficient-Data Condition owns the district’s appraisal-approach statement. Midland CAD 2025 Report: 419,660 Mineral Interest Accounts on PDF Page 25 owns the report’s approximate account-count statement. This article does not import those claims into the Open Records route map.

The separation gives each page one reproducible job:

1. Open Records route question: Where does the current page place a labeled link?
2. Publication question: Which official report or publication is linked?
3. Artifact question: What does a downloaded file actually contain, under what definitions and date?
4. Property question: What do account, title, lease, production, appraisal, tax, and transaction evidence establish for one interest?

Answering the first question does not answer the other three.

Confirm the issuer without treating provenance as endorsement

The Texas Comptroller Midland county directory identifies Midland Central Appraisal District and links its website at midcad.org. That is useful issuer and domain provenance.

The directory does not endorse every district file, certify that a linked archive is complete, confirm a record, or decide ownership, title, appraisal accuracy, tax treatment, protest outcome, mineral value, production, royalties, or a transaction. Provenance answers who published or routed a source. Validity and applicability require their own evidence.

A reproducible route-first workflow

Use this sequence when the goal is to locate a Midland CAD mineral-related source without overstating it:

1. Open the current official Open Records page.
2. Record the exact visible section heading and link label.
3. Record the target URL and filename suffix without rewriting the label.
4. Record the retrieval date and, when available, the page-record identity.
5. Decide whether the question requires only routing evidence or the actual target artifact.
6. If the artifact is required, preserve its complete byte hash, archive identity, member list, field definitions, and limitations before making a content claim.
7. Keep owner, property, account, title, appraisal, tax, production, royalty, and transaction conclusions outside the route-only step.
8. Use a current official contact route when the page or artifact does not answer the question.

This sequence makes gaps visible. It does not create a substantive result from missing evidence.

Five questions to ask before relying on a linked file

Before using a roll, notice, or mineral-file link for a specific decision, ask:

1. What exact file, revision, and retrieval date are being used?
2. Was the file downloaded successfully and preserved with a complete hash?
3. What do its fields, status labels, inclusions, exclusions, and effective date mean?
4. Does an identified record actually match the relevant owner, account, property, or interest?
5. What separate evidence is required for title, appraisal, tax, production, royalty, value, or transaction questions?

If one answer is missing, label the gap. Do not fill it with a filename assumption.

Evidence claim ledger and source status

Claim ID	Evidence label	Controlled observation	Boundary
C283-01	ROUTING-ONLY	The Texas Comptroller directory routes users to Midland CAD at midcad.org.	The directory does not validate a page, file, record, account, appraisal, tax, title, value, or transaction result.
C283-02	VERIFIED-OBSERVATION	The Open Records page contains Certified Rolls, Preliminary Rolls, Mineral Files, and other source areas.	Headings and links do not establish archive contents, completeness, applicability, or current property facts.
C283-03	VERIFIED-OBSERVATION	The 2026 Preliminary Mineral Roll appears under Preliminary Rolls.	The label does not prove archive contents or a person, account, or property match.
C283-04	VERIFIED-OBSERVATION	The 2026 Midland Certified Mineral Roll appears under Mineral Files.	The page placement must not be silently rewritten as a Certified Rolls heading entry.
C283-05	VERIFIED-OBSERVATION	The 2026 Mineral Notices link appears under Mineral Files.	The link does not prove notice existence, recipient match, delivery, currency, or legal effect.
C283-06	CONTEXT-ONLY	The preliminary roll and notices targets end in .7z; the certified mineral roll target ends in .zip.	Suffixes identify linked target formats only; no archive was downloaded, opened, extracted, sampled, or searched.
C283-07	VERIFIED-OBSERVATION	The Open Records REST record reports page ID 5797 and modified_gmt 2026-08-17T13:07:37.	WordPress metadata is not a visible publication date or an effective date for every linked file.
C283-08	UNRESOLVED-CONFLICT	The page says Open Records Request From; the linked PDF says Request for Information.	The mismatch is preserved and does not prove the link or form invalid.
C283-09	VERIFIED-OBSERVATION	The request PDF offers inspection or copies and asks for a specific description of requested information.	A blank form does not prove responsive records, cost, timing, completeness, or outcome.
C283-10	ROUTING-ONLY	Department Emails separately labels Minerals and Open Records Request routes.	Contact labels do not validate a record, route ownership, response, or conclusion.
C283-11	NON-VALIDATING	Publications is a separate route for reports and other documents.	A publication route does not update or validate an Open Records archive or property-specific question.
C283-12	VERIFIED-OBSERVATION	Controlled source bytes and SHA-256 values bind five machine or file retrievals.	Hashes prove retrieved-byte identity only, not truth, completeness, currency, applicability, or legal effect.
C283-13	NON-VALIDATING	No owner, property, account, roll archive, notice archive, or mineral-file archive was searched or copied.	This guide contains no account-specific or property-specific finding.

Retrieval, originality, and creative evidence

The controlled Open Records REST response was 9,992 bytes with SHA-256 5ffbcf5487d2de4c88e65eb507ce5edb4df427fba4cc06e099944963079cbce7. The controlled Publications and Department Emails responses were 10,240 and 3,557 bytes, with SHA-256 values e00996ca7cc38f9a0a59366da35d572602692a21352ca4a760edffd70bd971e9 and 60c67082f0e81a5cfcc86a0a8dc46c5b2ed0f47d6508595e7839e3371e8250a1. The request-form PDF and page rendering are bound above. The Comptroller directory response was 121,531 bytes with SHA-256 236fb5f5686a90b91c02047d50361f8639c498facad7ecb4cc3d973f6e28d813.

The exact replacement title and slug were absent before implementation. The nearest same-cluster title matches were howard-cad-open-records-request-form-mineral-record-field-inventory and midland-cad-mineral-property-three-approaches-sufficient-data-condition, each at token-Jaccard 0.1765. They own different jobs: a Howard CAD request-form field inventory and Midland CAD appraisal approaches. Article 283 owns only the current Midland Open Records route taxonomy and non-validation boundary.

The hero’s dark low-oblique origin-card and three-lane archive composition is materially different from the inline image’s bright strict top-down three-branch route map. The title and keyword were added with deterministic typography and passed OCR. Neither image reproduces a government record, seal, owner, property, account, value, result, or official affiliation.

The refreshed MRX1000-FACTORY-SEO-AEO-2026-08-29 contract applies: information gain over volume, current source identity, stable claim IDs and evidence labels, provenance separated from validity, answer-first structure, claim-adjacent official citations, supported FAQs, semantic internal links, exact visible/schema entity parity, idempotent route ownership, exact-title hero/share identity, a distinct exact-keyword inline image, and separate creation, release, and outcome states.

These controls improve clarity, reproducibility, distribution consistency, and citation eligibility. They do not promise indexing, ranking, retrieval, competitor displacement, or citation by a search or answer engine.

For broader Texas context, use the Texas Mineral Rights Guide. If you want help organizing property-specific documents without turning route evidence into a conclusion, book a mineral-rights review.

Frequently asked questions

Where does Midland CAD list the 2026 Preliminary Mineral Roll?

The current Open Records page places the link under Preliminary Rolls. The route identifies a linked 7z target but does not prove what the archive contains or whether it matches a person, account, or property.

Where does Midland CAD list the 2026 certified mineral roll?

The page places the link labeled 2026 Midland Certified Mineral Roll under Mineral Files. It is not displayed under the Certified Rolls heading on the retrieved page.

Where does Midland CAD list 2026 Mineral Notices?

The 2026 Mineral Notices link also appears under Mineral Files and targets a 7z file. The link alone does not prove that a notice exists for a particular owner or property.

Does a listed Midland CAD file establish ownership or mineral value?

No. A link and filename do not establish archive contents, current completeness, account applicability, ownership, title, appraisal accuracy, tax results, private mineral value, production, or royalties.

What is the Midland CAD request-form route?

The Open Records page displays a link labeled Open Records Request From. The linked one-page PDF is titled Request for Information and lets a requester choose inspection or copies and describe the requested information.

Sources reviewed for this article

• Midland Central Appraisal District Open Records page (accessed 2026-08-30)
• Midland CAD Open Records WordPress REST record (accessed 2026-08-30)
• Midland CAD Request for Information PDF (accessed 2026-08-30)
• Midland CAD Department Emails REST record (accessed 2026-08-30)
• Midland CAD Publications REST record (accessed 2026-08-30)
• Texas Comptroller Midland county directory (accessed 2026-08-30)