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Geothermal · Oil & gas

Land, title & right-of-way services in Archuleta County, Colorado

Archuleta County has no federal geothermal leasing on record. 103 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 3 fiber or telecom grants and 5 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
103
Active rights-of-way on federal land
3
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
5
Transmission & power line ROWs
15
Open mining claims
15 active
32
Authorized federal oil & gas leases
34,783 acres

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

No federal geothermal leasing on record here.

The federal layer is quiet. That can mean the resource isn't there, or that the ground is private and state and never shows up in BLM's record. The second case is common across the West, and it's where title work starts.

Authorized leases0
Acres under authorized lease0
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)0
Pending applications0
New leases, last 12 months0
Closed / relinquished on record0
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

103 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Archuleta County.

Of those, 3 fiber optic or communication grants, 5 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
96
Other Energy Facilities
5
Oil & Gas Facilities
2
Holders on record (all types)
  • Laplata Electric Assn4 grants
  • San Juan River Ranch Association3 grants
  • Square Top Land Limited Partnersip3 grants
  • Saddleback Ranch LLC2 grants
  • Bia2 grants
  • Fawn Gulch LLC2 grants
  • Frank Harvey Co Family Lp1 grant
  • Frank Harvey Colorado Family Limited Partnership1 grant
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Archuleta County Sheriff'S Office1 grant
  • Centurytel of Eagle1 grant
  • Laplata Electric Assn1 grant
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Laplata Electric Assn3 grants
  • Laplata Elec Assn1 grant
Competing surface use

15 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. 15 are active. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.

Oil & gas

32 authorized federal oil and gas leases on 34,783 acres. 401 more have been closed out. Where oil and gas leasing is active, the mineral estate is very often severed from the surface, and that is the title question that decides whether ground is leasable.

Open mining claims15
Active15
Filed (new)0
Under review0
Authorized oil & gas leases32
Oil & gas acres under lease34,783
What this page can't tell you

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

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    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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