CKX LANDS, INC.

This proxy statement and the CKX Lands, Inc. annual report to shareholders on Form 10-K are first being made available to shareholders on or about April 10, 2025.

The Board of Directors of CKX Lands, Inc. (“CKX Lands” or the “Company”) is soliciting your proxy to vote your shares of the Company’s common stock in connection with the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or any adjournments or postponements of the meeting. The meeting will be held on May 8, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., central time, at 2417 Shell Beach Drive, Lake Charles, Louisiana 70601. You may revoke your proxy at any time prior to it being voted by:

The Company is paying all expenses of preparing, printing, and mailing the proxy statement and all materials used in this solicitation. Proxies may also be solicited in person or by telephone, e-mail or fax by directors, officers and other employees of the Company, none of whom will receive additional compensation for such services. The Company will also request brokerage houses, custodians and nominees who are record owners of the Company’s common stock and who hold the stock on behalf of beneficial owners to forward these materials to the beneficial owners and will pay the reasonable expenses of such persons for forwarding the material.

On April 4, 2025, CKX Lands had outstanding 2,027,032 shares of common stock, its only class of stock, which was held by 263 shareholders of record. Only shareholders of record at the close of business on March 27, 2025, will be entitled to receive notice of and to vote at the meeting. On March 27, 2025, there were 2,027,032 shares of common stock outstanding. With respect to all matters that will come before the meeting, each shareholder may cast one vote for each share registered in his or her name on the record date. The presence, in person or by proxy, of holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote at the meeting is necessary to constitute a quorum at the meeting. Shareholders voting, or abstaining from voting, by proxy on any issue will be counted as present for purposes of constituting a quorum.

If a quorum is present:

When directors are elected by “plurality vote” and all nominees are unopposed, which is the case for our 2025 Annual Meeting, then each nominee who receives at least one vote will be elected. You may choose to “withhold” authority for your votes to be cast in favor of a nominee, which means your shares will not be voted for that nominee.

Abstentions are not votes cast, therefore they will have no effect on the calculation of the vote on the election of directors, the approval of the independent auditor, or the non-binding advisory vote on our executive compensation.

If you are the holder of record your shares (meaning you hold your shares in your own name as reflected on the records of our transfer agent, Computershare), then the shares represented by your properly executed proxy card will be voted at the meeting in accordance with your directions set forth on the proxy, unless you revoke it. If you indicate when voting your shares on the internet or by phone that you wish to vote as recommended by the Board of Directors, or if you sign and return your proxy card but do not give specific voting instructions, your shares will be voted FOR the election of all director nominees, FOR the ratification of the engagement of MaloneBailey LLP as auditors, and FOR the approval of the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers. The proxy also gives authority to the proxy holders to vote your shares in their discretion on any other matter that properly comes before the meeting.

If you hold your shares in an account at a brokerage firm, bank, or other nominee, then you are the beneficial owner of shares held in “street name,” and the proxy materials were forwarded to you by that firm, bank or nominee. The organization holding your account is considered the shareholder of record for purposes of voting at the Annual Meeting. In this case, if you want to attend the meeting and vote your shares in person, you must first obtain a legal proxy from your broker, bank or other nominee who is the record holder of the shares.

Shares held in “street name” can also be voted by proxy. As a beneficial owner, you have the right to instruct the organization that holds your shares on how to vote the shares held in your account. You will receive instructions from your broker, bank or other nominee that you must follow in order for your broker, bank or other nominee to vote your shares by proxy according to your instructions. Many brokerage firms and banks have a process for their beneficial holders to provide instructions via the internet or by telephone.

If the organization that holds your shares does not receive instructions from you on how to vote your shares, then under the rules of various national and regional securities exchanges, the organization may generally vote your shares in its discretion on routine matters, but it cannot vote on non-routine matters.If the organization that holds your shares does not receive instructions from you on how to vote your shares on a non-routine matter, the organization will not have the authority to vote, and therefore cannot vote, on that matter with respect to your shares. This is generally referred to as a“broker non-vote.”** The election of directors (Item 1) and matters relating to executive compensation such as the non-binding advisory vote on the compensation of our named executive officers (Item 3) are non-routine matters, so brokers may not vote your shares on Items 1 or 3 if you do not give specific instructions on how to vote.**

We encourage you to provide instructions to your broker or nominee regarding these proposals so your shares will be voted.

The ratification of the engagement of the Company’s independent auditors (Item No. 2) is a matter that we believe will be considered routine. Therefore, no broker non-votes are expected to occur in connection with Item No. 2.

Broker non-votes will be counted as present at the Annual Meeting for the purposes of calculating a quorum but will not be counted as present for any other purpose or as a vote actually cast at the meeting. Thus, we believe broker non-votes will have no effect on the election of directors (Item 1), the ratification of the engagement of our independent auditors (Item No. 2), or the non-binding advisory vote on the compensation of our named executive officers (Item 3).