Land, title & right-of-way services in Bannock County, Idaho
Bannock County has no federal geothermal leasing on record. 161 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 44 fiber or telecom grants and 26 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.
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.
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.
44 fiber and telecom rights-of-way lead the linear record here.
161 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Bannock County. 7 applications are pending.
Of those, 44 fiber optic or communication grants, 26 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 6 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.
- 19 grants
- 7 grants
- 6 grants
- 6 grants
- 5 grants
- 3 grants
- 3 grants
- 3 grants
- 6 grants
- 2 grants
- 2 grants
- 2 grants
- 2 grants
- 1 grant
- 17 grants
- 6 grants
- 1 grant
- 1 grant
- 1 grant
63 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. 5 are active, 56 newly filed. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.
Oil & gasNo authorized federal oil and gas leases, but 149 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.
The private half of Bannock 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 Bannock County recorder's office, and it is the step that decides whether you can actually lease the ground.
- Free EvalA self-serve read on your target area in the county.
- Area AssessmentFlat 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 & acquisitionCounty title, tract by tract, with surface, mineral, and geothermal estates run separately. Then we lease it.