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

Washoe County has 34 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 49,179 acres, 30 of them flagged as non-producing. 610 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 112 fiber or telecom grants and 110 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.
Reno load center and the Steamboat geothermal complex.

49,179 acres under federal geothermal lease, 30 leases held without production.

34 authorized leases cover 49,179 acres of federal ground in Washoe County. 30 are flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed. BLM leaves the production flag blank on 4, so the record understates what is actually online.

8 new leases on 21,522 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.

117 leases on 187,511 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.

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

610 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Washoe County, 14 of them issued in the last twelve months. 82 applications are pending.

Of those, 112 fiber optic or communication grants, 110 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 25 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.

3,641 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. 2,716 are active, 922 newly filed, 3 under review. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.

No authorized federal oil and gas leases, but 168 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

The private half of Washoe 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 Washoe 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.