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Land, title & right-of-way services in Elmore County, Idaho

Elmore County has 5 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 13,793 acres, 5 of them flagged as non-producing. 515 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 58 fiber or telecom grants and 135 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.
Mountain Home and the western Snake River Plain.

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5
Authorized federal geothermal leases
13,793 acres
515
Active rights-of-way on federal land
3 new in 12 months
58
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
135
Transmission & power line ROWs
501
Open mining claims
159 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

5 federal geothermal leases on 13,793 acres.

5 authorized leases cover 13,793 acres of federal ground in Elmore County. 5 are flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed.

5 new leases on 13,793 acres were 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.

Authorized leases5
Acres under authorized lease13,793
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)5
Pending applications0
New leases, last 12 months5 · 13,793 ac
Closed / relinquished on record0
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

515 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Elmore County, 3 of them issued in the last twelve months. 39 applications are pending.

Of those, 58 fiber optic or communication grants, 135 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 43 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
309
Other Energy Facilities
140
Oil & Gas Facilities
43
Fiber Optic Facilities
19
None
2
Agricultural
1
Transmission Line
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Idaho Power Co141 grants
  • Tesoro Logistics Northwest Pipeline LLC14 grants
  • Qwest Corp Dba Centurylink Qc12 grants
  • Northwest Pipeline11 grants
  • Northwest Pipeline LLC11 grants
  • Rural Telephone Co10 grants
  • Intermountain Gas Co9 grants
  • Union Pacific Railroad Co8 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Qwest Corp Dba Centurylink Qc12 grants
  • Rural Telephone Co10 grants
  • Centurytel of Gem State Inc.4 grants
  • Qwest Corp4 grants
  • Idaho Power Co3 grants
  • Silver Star Communications2 grants
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Idaho Power Co129 grants
  • Pacificorp Property Management2 grants
  • Pacificorp R/W Services Dba Rocky Mountain Power1 grant
  • 101 Ranch Inc.1 grant
  • D2b LLC1 grant
  • Desert Ridge Winds LLC1 grant
Competing surface use

501 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. 159 are active, 341 newly filed, 1 under review. 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 168 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims501
Active159
Filed (new)341
Under review1
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Elmore 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 Elmore 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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  • 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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