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

Nye County has 13 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 31,817 acres, 8 of them flagged as non-producing. 933 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 148 fiber or telecom grants and 150 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.

31,817 acres under federal geothermal lease, 8 leases held without production.

13 authorized leases cover 31,817 acres of federal ground in Nye County. 8 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.

2 new leases on 8,029 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.

160 leases on 311,108 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.

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

933 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Nye County, 27 of them issued in the last twelve months. 137 applications are pending.

Of those, 148 fiber optic or communication grants, 150 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 7 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.

41,115 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. 32,713 are active, 8,145 newly filed, 233 under review. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.

139 authorized federal oil and gas leases on 206,032 acres, 11 of them issued in the last twelve months. 6,487 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 Nye 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 Nye County recorder's office, and it is the step that decides whether you can actually lease the ground.

• 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.