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

Humboldt County has 47 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 117,862 acres, 39 of them flagged as non-producing. 600 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 75 fiber or telecom grants and 125 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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47
Authorized federal geothermal leases
117,862 acres
600
Active rights-of-way on federal land
3 new in 12 months
75
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
125
Transmission & power line ROWs
29,484
Open mining claims
23,126 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

117,862 acres under federal geothermal lease, 39 leases held without production.

47 authorized leases cover 117,862 acres of federal ground in Humboldt County. 39 are flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed. BLM leaves the production flag blank on 8, so the record understates what is actually online.

15 new leases on 51,625 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.

1 application is pending. A pending case is a company that has declared intent in a specific place before doing its private-side land work.

176 leases on 327,450 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 leases47
Acres under authorized lease117,862
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)39
Pending applications1
New leases, last 12 months15 · 51,625 ac
Closed / relinquished on record176 · 327,450 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

600 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Humboldt County, 3 of them issued in the last twelve months. 55 applications are pending.

Of those, 75 fiber optic or communication grants, 125 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 10 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
418
Other Energy Facilities
135
Fiber Optic Facilities
19
Oil & Gas Facilities
10
Distribution Line
7
Interstate Energy Facilities
2
Transmission Line
2
Holders on record (all types)
  • Nv Dept of Trans104 grants
  • Humboldt County73 grants
  • Harney Electric Coop47 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company46 grants
  • Nevada Bell15 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company*13 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Co12 grants
  • Union Pacific Railroad Co11 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Nevada Bell15 grants
  • Humboldt County8 grants
  • New Cingular Wireless LLC7 grants
  • Oregon-Idaho Utilities Inc.7 grants
  • Commnet Wireless, LLC4 grants
  • Oregon Idaho Utilities Inc.3 grants
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Harney Electric Coop46 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company44 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company*13 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Co12 grants
  • T Quarter Circle Ranch2 grants
  • Ngp Blue Mountain I LLC2 grants
Competing surface use

29,484 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. 23,126 are active, 6,329 newly filed, 29 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 477 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims29,484
Active23,126
Filed (new)6,329
Under review29
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

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

How we work here
  • Free Eval
    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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