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

Modoc County has 1 authorized federal geothermal lease covering 240 acres, 1 of them flagged as non-producing. 288 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 20 fiber or telecom grants and 33 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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1
Authorized federal geothermal leases
240 acres
288
Active rights-of-way on federal land
2 new in 12 months
20
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
33
Transmission & power line ROWs
13
Open mining claims
7 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

1 federal geothermal lease on 240 acres.

1 authorized lease cover 240 acres of federal ground in Modoc County. 1 is flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed.

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.

56 leases on 140,823 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 leases1
Acres under authorized lease240
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)1
Pending applications0
New leases, last 12 months1 · 240 ac
Closed / relinquished on record56 · 140,823 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

288 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Modoc County, 2 of them issued in the last twelve months. 8 applications are pending.

Of those, 20 fiber optic or communication grants, 33 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
227
Other Energy Facilities
46
None
7
Fiber Optic Facilities
3
Oil & Gas Facilities
2
Interstate Energy Facilities
1
Null Code-S
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Central Pac Rr12 grants
  • Great Northern Railway Co12 grants
  • Surprise Valley Electric11 grants
  • Pacificorp Property Mgmt Dept Attn: Row Mgr10 grants
  • Ca Dept Transportation7 grants
  • Citizens Communications7 grants
  • Leland & Myers Inc.6 grants
  • Pac Pwr & Lgt Co5 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Citizens Communications7 grants
  • Frontier Communications Solutions2 grants
  • Modoc County Office of Emergency Services1 grant
  • Modoc County Sheriffs Office1 grant
  • Pacific Telephone & Telegraph1 grant
  • Pacificorp1 grant
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Surprise Valley Electric11 grants
  • Pacificorp Property Mgmt Dept Attn: Row Mgr10 grants
  • California Oregon Power Co2 grants
  • Pacificorp2 grants
  • Pacificorp Property Mgmt Dept2 grants
  • Pacific Pwr & Light1 grant
Competing surface use

13 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. 7 are active, 6 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 345 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims13
Active7
Filed (new)6
Under review0
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Modoc 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 Modoc 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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