Land, title & right-of-way services in Imperial County, California

Imperial County has 24 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 33,941 acres, 17 of them flagged as non-producing. 408 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 59 fiber or telecom grants and 66 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.
Salton Sea geothermal and lithium.

33,941 acres under federal geothermal lease, 17 leases held without production.

24 authorized leases cover 33,941 acres of federal ground in Imperial County. 17 are flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed. BLM leaves the production flag blank on 7, so the record understates what is actually online.

10 new leases on 18,080 acres were authorized in the last twelve months. Somebody is assembling a position here right now, and the private and state inholdings around that federal acreage just became the most interesting tracts in the county.

168 leases on 391,509 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.

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

408 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Imperial County. 23 applications are pending.

Of those, 59 fiber optic or communication grants, 66 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 12 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.

2,085 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. 1,496 are active, 586 newly filed, 3 under review. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.

No authorized federal oil and gas leases, but 471 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

The private half of Imperial 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 Imperial County recorder's office, and it is the step that decides whether you can actually lease the ground.

• Free Eval
  A self-serve read on your target area in the county.
• 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.