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

Broadwater County has no federal geothermal leasing on record. 74 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 14 fiber or telecom grants and 18 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
74
Active rights-of-way on federal land
14
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
18
Transmission & power line ROWs
681
Open mining claims
676 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

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

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

74 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Broadwater County. 1 application is pending.

Of those, 14 fiber optic or communication grants, 18 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
49
Other Energy Facilities
19
Fiber Optic Facilities
2
Oil & Gas Facilities
2
None
1
Transmission Line
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Northwestern Energy9 grants
  • Qwest Corp5 grants
  • Vigilante Electric Cooperative Inc.4 grants
  • Northwestern Corp Dba Northwestern Energy3 grants
  • Chic Mil St P Pac Rr3 grants
  • Northwestern Corporation2 grants
  • Broadwater County (Montana)2 grants
  • Yellowstone Pipeline Co1 grant
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Qwest Corp5 grants
  • Broadwater County (Montana)2 grants
  • Clearview Tower Company Iii LLC1 grant
  • New Cingular Wireless Pcs LLC1 grant
  • Qwest Communications Co LLC1 grant
  • Qwest Corporation1 grant
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Northwestern Energy9 grants
  • Vigilante Electric Cooperative Inc.3 grants
  • Northwestern Corp Dba Northwestern Energy2 grants
  • Northwestern Corporation2 grants
  • Northwestern Corp1 grant
Competing surface use

681 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. 676 are active, 5 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 347 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims681
Active676
Filed (new)5
Under review0
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Broadwater 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 Broadwater 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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