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

Lyon County has 14 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 34,268 acres, 11 of them flagged as non-producing. 363 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 63 fiber or telecom grants and 82 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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14
Authorized federal geothermal leases
34,268 acres
363
Active rights-of-way on federal land
13 new in 12 months
63
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
82
Transmission & power line ROWs
7,654
Open mining claims
6,712 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

34,268 acres under federal geothermal lease, 11 leases held without production.

14 authorized leases cover 34,268 acres of federal ground in Lyon County. 11 are flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed. BLM leaves the production flag blank on 3, so the record understates what is actually online.

1 new lease on 3,041 acres was 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.

34 leases on 53,084 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 leases14
Acres under authorized lease34,268
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)11
Pending applications1
New leases, last 12 months1 · 3,041 ac
Closed / relinquished on record34 · 53,084 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

363 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Lyon County, 13 of them issued in the last twelve months. 72 applications are pending.

Of those, 63 fiber optic or communication grants, 82 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 21 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
228
Other Energy Facilities
86
Oil & Gas Facilities
21
Fiber Optic Facilities
20
Solar Energy Facilities
4
Distribution Line
1
Transmission Line
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Sierra Pacific Power Co53 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company22 grants
  • Nevada Bell14 grants
  • Great Basin Gas Transmission Company13 grants
  • Frontier Communications/Citizens Telecommunication6 grants
  • Southwest Gas Corp6 grants
  • Lyon Cnty5 grants
  • Sky Fiber Internet5 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Nevada Bell14 grants
  • Frontier Communications/Citizens Telecommunication6 grants
  • Sky Fiber Internet5 grants
  • Frontier Communications3 grants
  • Nevada Bell Tel Co Dba AT&T Nv Row Dept3 grants
  • Nevada Bell Telephone Company2 grants
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Sierra Pacific Power Co51 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company18 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company Dba Nevada Energy2 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company*2 grants
  • Nevada Power Company (Nevada Energy)2 grants
  • Patua Acquisition Co LLC1 grant
Competing surface use

7,654 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. 6,712 are active, 930 newly filed, 12 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 13 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims7,654
Active6,712
Filed (new)930
Under review12
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Lyon 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 Lyon 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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  • 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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