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Land, title & right-of-way services in Eureka County, Nevada

Eureka County has 35 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 97,143 acres, 30 of them flagged as non-producing. 320 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 69 fiber or telecom grants and 53 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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35
Authorized federal geothermal leases
97,143 acres
320
Active rights-of-way on federal land
6 new in 12 months
69
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
53
Transmission & power line ROWs
27,933
Open mining claims
25,189 active
40
Authorized federal oil & gas leases
66,023 acres

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

97,143 acres under federal geothermal lease, 30 leases held without production.

35 authorized leases cover 97,143 acres of federal ground in Eureka County. 30 are flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed. BLM leaves the production flag blank on 5, so the record understates what is actually online.

8 new leases on 20,608 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.

40 leases on 65,772 acres have 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 leases35
Acres under authorized lease97,143
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)30
Pending applications0
New leases, last 12 months8 · 20,608 ac
Closed / relinquished on record40 · 65,772 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

320 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Eureka County, 6 of them issued in the last twelve months. 17 applications are pending.

Of those, 69 fiber optic or communication grants, 53 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.

Authorized ROWs by type
Non-Energy Facilities
225
Other Energy Facilities
57
Fiber Optic Facilities
15
None
14
Oil & Gas Facilities
6
Transmission Line
2
Water
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Nevada Bell24 grants
  • Mt Wheeler Power Inc.14 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company14 grants
  • Nv Dept of Trans10 grants
  • Wells Rural Electric8 grants
  • Eureka Moly LLC6 grants
  • Eureka County (Nevada)5 grants
  • Newmont Mining Corp5 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Nevada Bell24 grants
  • Citizens Comm3 grants
  • Commnet of Nevada LLC3 grants
  • Nevada Bell Telephone Comp D/B/A AT&T Nv R/W Dept3 grants
  • Nevada State Office2 grants
  • New Cingular Wireless LLC2 grants
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Mt Wheeler Power Inc.14 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company12 grants
  • Wells Rural Electric8 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company*4 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Co4 grants
  • Newmont Mining Corporation2 grants
Competing surface use

27,933 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. 25,189 are active, 2,650 newly filed, 91 under review. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.

Oil & gas

40 authorized federal oil and gas leases on 66,023 acres, 2 of them issued in the last twelve months. 2,779 more have been closed out. Where oil and gas leasing is active, the mineral estate is very often severed from the surface, and that is the title question that decides whether ground is leasable.

Open mining claims27,933
Active25,189
Filed (new)2,650
Under review91
Authorized oil & gas leases40
Oil & gas acres under lease66,023
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Eureka 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 Eureka 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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    A self-serve read on your target area in the county.
  • 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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