Land, title & right-of-way services in Lander County, Nevada
Lander County has 61 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 183,564 acres, 53 of them flagged as non-producing. 410 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 79 fiber or telecom grants and 84 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.
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.
183,564 acres under federal geothermal lease, 53 leases held without production.
61 authorized leases cover 183,564 acres of federal ground in Lander County. 53 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.
29 new leases on 97,769 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.
2 applications are pending. A pending case is a company that has declared intent in a specific place before doing its private-side land work.
143 leases on 271,803 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.
84 transmission and power line rights-of-way cross federal ground here.
410 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Lander County, 8 of them issued in the last twelve months. 28 applications are pending.
Of those, 79 fiber optic or communication grants, 84 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.
- 34 grants
- 29 grants
- 25 grants
- 21 grants
- 19 grants
- 9 grants
- 5 grants
- 5 grants
- 34 grants
- 2 grants
- 2 grants
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- 28 grants
- 24 grants
- 17 grants
- 2 grants
- 2 grants
- 1 grant
29,734 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. 22,584 are active, 6,235 newly filed, 851 under review. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.
Oil & gas18 authorized federal oil and gas leases on 31,985 acres. 577 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.
The private half of Lander 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 Lander County recorder's office, and it is the step that decides whether you can actually lease the ground.
- Free EvalA self-serve read on your target area in the county.
- Area AssessmentFlat 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 & acquisitionCounty title, tract by tract, with surface, mineral, and geothermal estates run separately. Then we lease it.