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

Jefferson County has no federal geothermal leasing on record. 220 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 36 fiber or telecom grants and 34 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
220
Active rights-of-way on federal land
8 new in 12 months
36
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
34
Transmission & power line ROWs
1,249
Open mining claims
1,244 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

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

220 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Jefferson County, 8 of them issued in the last twelve months. 4 applications are pending.

Of those, 36 fiber optic or communication grants, 34 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 5 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
168
Other Energy Facilities
40
Fiber Optic Facilities
5
Oil & Gas Facilities
5
Distribution Line
1
None
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Northwestern Energy20 grants
  • Northwestern Corp Dba Northwestern Energy7 grants
  • Qwest Corp7 grants
  • Vigilante Electric Cooperative Inc.7 grants
  • Qwest Corp Dba Centurylink Qc4 grants
  • Qwest Corporation4 grants
  • Jefferson County (Montana)4 grants
  • Burlington Northern Railroad Company3 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Qwest Corp7 grants
  • Qwest Corp Dba Centurylink Qc4 grants
  • Qwest Corporation4 grants
  • Jefferson County (Montana)4 grants
  • Verizon Wireless (Vaw) LLC2 grants
  • Whitehall Low Pwr Tv1 grant
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Northwestern Energy16 grants
  • Vigilante Electric Cooperative Inc.7 grants
  • Northwestern Corp Dba Northwestern Energy6 grants
  • Northwestern Corp3 grants
  • Northwestern Corporation1 grant
Competing surface use

1,249 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. 1,244 are active, 4 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 182 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims1,249
Active1,244
Filed (new)4
Under review1
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Jefferson 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 Jefferson 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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