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Land, title & right-of-way services in Beaverhead County, Montana

Beaverhead County has no active federal geothermal leases today, but 1 closed lease on record. The ground has been tried before. 399 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 31 fiber or telecom grants and 67 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
399
Active rights-of-way on federal land
2 new in 12 months
31
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
67
Transmission & power line ROWs
2,597
Open mining claims
2,513 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

Leased and released: 1 closed federal geothermal leases, none active.

1 lease on 2,002 acres has 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 record1 · 2,002 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

399 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Beaverhead County, 2 of them issued in the last twelve months. 3 applications are pending.

Of those, 31 fiber optic or communication grants, 67 transmission, distribution, or energy-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
312
Other Energy Facilities
78
Fiber Optic Facilities
8
Nonexclusive
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Vigilante Electric Cooperative Inc.55 grants
  • 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative Inc.10 grants
  • Montana/Dakotas State Office8 grants
  • Srn Mt Tel Co8 grants
  • Northwestern Corporation5 grants
  • Mt Dept of Transportation4 grants
  • Dooling Lvstk Co4 grants
  • Arrow Ranches LLC4 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • 3 Rivers Telephone Cooperative Inc.10 grants
  • Srn Mt Tel Co8 grants
  • Beaverhead Co Disaster & Emergency Services2 grants
  • Beaverhead County1 grant
  • Clearview Tower Company Iii LLC1 grant
  • Montana Deptartment of Transportation1 grant
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Vigilante Electric Cooperative Inc.53 grants
  • Northwestern Corporation5 grants
  • Idaho Power Co3 grants
  • Northwestern Corp2 grants
  • Northwestern Corp Dba Northwestern Energy1 grant
  • Northwestern Energy1 grant
Competing surface use

2,597 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. 2,513 are active, 84 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 1,833 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims2,597
Active2,513
Filed (new)84
Under review0
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

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

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  • 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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