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Land, title & right-of-way services in Cochise County, Arizona

Cochise County has no active federal geothermal leases today, but 10 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before. 340 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 47 fiber or telecom grants and 50 transmission or power lines. We run title, leasing, and right-of-way acquisition on both sides of the federal line: the record above, and the private ground it's woven through.

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Authorized federal geothermal leases
340
Active rights-of-way on federal land
4 new in 12 months
47
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
50
Transmission & power line ROWs
3,719
Open mining claims
2,423 active

Federal records from BLM's Mineral & Land Records System, queried against the Census county boundary. Current to September 1, 2026. Federal cases only; private and state land are not represented. A lease or right-of-way that crosses a county line is counted in each county it touches.

Geothermal on federal land

Leased and released: 10 closed federal geothermal leases, none active.

10 leases on 15,418 acres have been closed out here. That cuts both ways: the resource drew interest, and prior holders let it go rather than develop it. The reason is usually resource, access, or economics, and it is knowable before you commit capital.

Authorized leases0
Acres under authorized lease0
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)0
Pending applications0
New leases, last 12 months0
Closed / relinquished on record10 · 15,418 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

50 transmission and power line rights-of-way cross federal ground here.

340 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Cochise County, 4 of them issued in the last twelve months. 9 applications are pending.

Of those, 47 fiber optic or communication grants, 50 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 32 oil and gas facility grants. The named holders are the companies spending money on linear infrastructure in this county, and the federal segment is usually the shorter part of their route. The private miles in between are the work.

Authorized ROWs by type
Non-Energy Facilities
212
Other Energy Facilities
72
Oil & Gas Facilities
32
Fiber Optic Facilities
22
Distribution Line
1
Interstate Energy Facilities
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Union Pacific Rr Co52 grants
  • Sulphur Sprgs Elec34 grants
  • El Paso Natural Gas Co17 grants
  • Valley Tel Co12 grants
  • Qwest Dba Centurylink10 grants
  • Southwest Gas Corp9 grants
  • Az Public Service8 grants
  • Arizona Electric Power Cooperative6 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Valley Tel Co12 grants
  • Qwest Dba Centurylink9 grants
  • AT&T4 grants
  • AT&T Gre Lease Admin1 grant
  • Cochise Cnty Bd Supvrs1 grant
  • Cochise County Bd Supvrs1 grant
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Sulphur Sprgs Elec29 grants
  • Az Public Service6 grants
  • Arizona Electric Power Cooperative4 grants
  • Arizona Public Service3 grants
  • Columbus Elec Coop2 grants
  • Columbus Electric Coop2 grants
Competing surface use

3,719 open mining claims compete for the same ground.

Mining claims don't stop a geothermal or right-of-way project, but they compete for surface, complicate siting and access, and each claimant is a party you have to deal with. 2,423 are active, 1,132 newly filed, 164 under review. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.

Oil & gas

No authorized federal oil and gas leases, but 833 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims3,719
Active2,423
Filed (new)1,132
Under review164
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Cochise County isn't in any database.

Everything above is what the federal government controls. It does not show who owns a severed mineral or geothermal estate on private ground, whether that title is clean, what liens sit against it, or which families you'll be negotiating with. That lives in the Cochise County recorder's office, and it is the step that decides whether you can actually lease the ground.

How we work here
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  • Area Assessment
    Flat fee. We pull the full federal record for your area of interest and tell you what's held, who holds it, and what to do next.
  • Diligence & acquisition
    County title, tract by tract, with surface, mineral, and geothermal estates run separately. Then we lease it.
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Source: Bureau of Land Management, Mineral & Land Records System, via gis.blm.gov; county boundary from the U.S. Census Bureau. Queried September 1, 2026. Informational only; not a title opinion or legal advice.
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