50 Acres of Marsh on Bayou la Loutre

Before you buy this parcel

• The recorded deed conveys by quitclaim without warranty and is made subject to exceptions including title to all oil, gas and other minerals (not examined), title to any portion considered federal or state waterbottoms, State ownership of oyster beds, discrepancies in acreage. No title abstract or examination was performed.
• The deed also excepts any legal right of access to and from the land. That is a title exception - Crescent Title did not examine or insure a right of way - and not a finding that the land cannot be reached. These tracts front Bayou la Loutre, a navigable public waterway, with roughly 11,500 feet of bayou frontage across the holding on the 2024 mapping, and access is by boat.
• This listing is made up of undivided ONE-HALF interests in two tracts - 40 acres in Section 4, T15S-R16E and 10 acres in Section 3, T15S-R16E - and not sole ownership of 50 acres. The equivalent area is 25 acres. The Nature Conservancy confirmed the interests with the St. Bernard Parish assessor before the sale, and paid the 2023 tax bill in the same proportions: a quarter of the bill on the 382.8 acres, half on each of the 40 and the 10, and the whole bill on the three parcels held outright. The recorded deed separately recites a further undivided one-half in what appears to be the same 40 acres; the assessor's records list that parcel once, at one half, so the duplicate should not be read as conveying the whole.
• Who the co-owner is, as far as the records show. The other undivided half of both tracts is held by the heirs of Julia Adele Gill Wagner, sister of the George W. Gill Jr. whose succession put this land into The Nature Conservancy and World Wildlife Fund, under an amended judgment of possession recorded 22 April 2026 (File 677182, Book 1285, Page 36), which describes their interests as including the mineral rights.
• Acreage carries a known uncertainty. Each tract is offered at the acreage in its MLS record, and those four figures total 482.8 acres. The location study by McKay & Associates maps the whole holding at roughly 458 acres, and that is the figure the owner has used in writing with a neighbouring landowner. The study is expressly not a boundary survey, so neither number is guaranteed. If exact area matters to your purpose, commission a survey before you close and price the difference in.
• Water access only. There is no road access to this parcel. Confirm how you intend to reach and use it before you close.
• Elevation, flood zone and permitted use all need checking for your purpose. Acreage and boundaries are taken from the listing and are not guaranteed.
• The parcels are not one contiguous block. They sit in several different township and range areas across the parish, so buying more than one does not give you adjoining ground.
• Mineral rights. No instrument found separates the minerals from this land. The abstractor's 2022 title research, in the documents below, found no mineral reservation and found every earlier oil and gas lease expired for want of production. The St. Bernard Parish conveyance records from 26 April 2022 to 28 October 2026 hold no mineral lease, sale or reservation on these tracts. The State's SONRIS records show no well permitted in the parish since April 2022, no production unit on these sections and no lease of the land itself. Under Louisiana law a mineral right held apart from the land lapses after ten years without drilling or production, so an older reservation not found here would have lapsed by now. What is offered is the seller's undivided share of the minerals, unleased and earning nothing today. No attorney has examined mineral title for anyone, and the quitclaim says so. The State owns the beds of navigable waters and their minerals, and the oyster beds; those are outside the sale.
• A State mineral lease adjoins. State Lease 22377, sold 9 September 2026 to Theophilus Oil, Gas & Land Services, LLC at $25 an acre with a one-eighth royalty, covers 380 acres of State-claimed water bottoms touching Section 3 of T15S-R16E. It leases the State's water bottoms, not this land; the land itself is unleased. It does mean an operator is paying to hold acreage in this water, which is worth knowing for its own sake.