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

Lassen County has 2 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 560 acres, 1 of them flagged as non-producing. 363 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 55 fiber or telecom grants and 35 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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2
Authorized federal geothermal leases
560 acres
363
Active rights-of-way on federal land
3 new in 12 months
55
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
35
Transmission & power line ROWs
204
Open mining claims
45 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

2 federal geothermal leases on 560 acres.

2 authorized leases cover 560 acres of federal ground in Lassen County. 1 is flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed. BLM leaves the production flag blank on 1, so the record understates what is actually online.

1 new lease on 240 acres was 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.

27 leases on 62,192 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 leases2
Acres under authorized lease560
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)1
Pending applications0
New leases, last 12 months1 · 240 ac
Closed / relinquished on record27 · 62,192 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

55 fiber and telecom rights-of-way lead the linear record here.

363 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Lassen County, 3 of them issued in the last twelve months. 15 applications are pending.

Of those, 55 fiber optic or communication grants, 35 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 2 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
293
Other Energy Facilities
44
None
13
Fiber Optic Facilities
5
Other
2
Wind Energy Facilities
2
Exclusive
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Nv-Ca-or Railway15 grants
  • Ca Dept Transportation13 grants
  • Citizens Communications13 grants
  • Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric12 grants
  • Western Pacific Railway12 grants
  • Surprise Valley Electric8 grants
  • Lassen Municipal Utility District5 grants
  • Central Pac Rr4 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Citizens Communications13 grants
  • Lassen County (California)3 grants
  • AT&T California Attn: Tracy Cleveland3 grants
  • Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric3 grants
  • T-Mobile West LLC3 grants
  • Pacific Telephone & Telegraph2 grants
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric9 grants
  • Surprise Valley Electric7 grants
  • Lassen Municipal Utility District3 grants
  • Malacha Pwr Proj In Attn Judy Peterson2 grants
  • Lassen County (California) - Municipal Utility District1 grant
  • Pg&E1 grant
Competing surface use

204 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. 45 are active, 159 newly filed. 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 315 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims204
Active45
Filed (new)159
Under review0
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

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

How we work here
  • 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.
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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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