LearnMineral Title

Maps & data stories

Where the data tells the story.

Title work runs on records: millions of them. Every so often I take a public dataset and turn it into something you can actually see: interactive maps and visual stories about how oil & gas got drilled, owned, and recorded. Free to explore, fun to share.

Map of Colorado oil and gas wells, colored by year drilled
Live · interactive
Featured · Colorado

164 years of Colorado, drawn in wells.

Press play and watch 89,913 real wellbores bloom across the state: from a single hole near Cañon City in 1862 to the horizontal era in Weld County. The basins fill in one spud at a time.

89,913
wells mapped
1862–2026
years
ECMC
public data
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In the workshop

What I'm thinking about next.

Rough ideas, not promises. If one of these would be useful to you, say so: it'll jump the queue.

Idea · ownership

The severance map

Where the surface and minerals split apart: a county-by-county look at how much of the ground is owned twice over.

Idea · history

Anatomy of a chain of title

One real tract, scrolled from patent to present: every deed, lease, and reservation as a single visual thread.

Idea · the rockies

The wells, all of them

The Colorado map, scaled up to the whole DJ Basin: Wyoming and Nebraska included. Same play button, ten times the dots.

"A good map answers a question you didn't know you had. That's the same reason I got into title work, so I keep making them."

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