What exactly is a Water Tract in Texas, and is there a map of them somewhere?

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As the header states, what exactly is a Water Tract in Texas? I was researching a Mineral Owner recently, and many of their legals said things like, “an undivided 1/8 interest in water tract 1, 2, 3 and 4” in such and such section.

I was able to find a few plats in Texas RRC that showed the water tracts, so I could see where the Mineral Owner owned interest, but not every plat shows them and they are not displayed in any GIS map I’ve seen. I can’t find any information on them via Google, but I may just not know how to search properly for lack of knowledge.

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These are usually old farm subdivisions and the plats can usually be found in the deed records but you may have to specifically ask for the plat books.

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