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

Garfield County has no active federal geothermal leases today, but 2 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before. 907 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 85 fiber or telecom grants and 79 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
907
Active rights-of-way on federal land
8 new in 12 months
85
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
79
Transmission & power line ROWs
77
Open mining claims
77 active
444
Authorized federal oil & gas leases
368,621 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

Leased and released: 2 closed federal geothermal leases, none active.

2 leases on 1,048 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 record2 · 1,048 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

907 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Garfield County, 8 of them issued in the last twelve months. 35 applications are pending.

Of those, 85 fiber optic or communication grants, 79 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 297 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
334
Oil & Gas Facilities
297
Other Energy Facilities
260
Fiber Optic Facilities
12
Distribution Line
2
Gathering Line
1
Transmission Line
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Tep Rocky Mountain LLC143 grants
  • Qb Energy Operating LLC66 grants
  • Ugc Midstream Ltd65 grants
  • Public Service Co of Co38 grants
  • Red Rock Gathering Co LLC38 grants
  • Qwest Corporation D/B/A/ Centurylink Qc30 grants
  • Locin Oil Corp26 grants
  • Qb Energy Operating, LLC24 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Qwest Corporation D/B/A/ Centurylink Qc30 grants
  • Qwest Corp Dba Centurylink Qc11 grants
  • American Towers LLC5 grants
  • Garfield County (Colorado)4 grants
  • Mountain Communications & Electronics3 grants
  • Qwest Corp3 grants
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Public Service Co of Co24 grants
  • Holy Cross Energy22 grants
  • Grand Valley Rural Power8 grants
  • Moon Lake Elec Assn6 grants
  • White River Electric Assn5 grants
  • Public Service Company of Colorado3 grants
Competing surface use

77 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. 77 are active. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.

Oil & gas

444 authorized federal oil and gas leases on 368,621 acres, 34 of them issued in the last twelve months. 2,086 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 claims77
Active77
Filed (new)0
Under review0
Authorized oil & gas leases444
Oil & gas acres under lease368,621
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Garfield 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 Garfield 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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    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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