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

White Pine County has 30 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 75,900 acres, 30 of them flagged as non-producing. 710 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 111 fiber or telecom grants and 85 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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30
Authorized federal geothermal leases
75,900 acres
710
Active rights-of-way on federal land
5 new in 12 months
111
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
85
Transmission & power line ROWs
23,959
Open mining claims
18,446 active
47
Authorized federal oil & gas leases
104,901 acres

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

75,900 acres under federal geothermal lease, 30 leases held without production.

30 authorized leases cover 75,900 acres of federal ground in White Pine County. 30 are flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed.

30 leases on 75,644 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 leases30
Acres under authorized lease75,900
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)30
Pending applications0
New leases, last 12 months0
Closed / relinquished on record30 · 75,644 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

710 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in White Pine County, 5 of them issued in the last twelve months. 45 applications are pending.

Of those, 111 fiber optic or communication grants, 85 transmission, distribution, or energy-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
573
Other Energy Facilities
82
Fiber Optic Facilities
16
Transmission Line
11
Distribution Line
10
Agricultural
4
Historic Purposes
3
Holders on record (all types)
  • Mt Wheeler Power Inc.58 grants
  • Nevada Bell Telephone Comp D/B/A AT&T Nv R/W Dept52 grants
  • Mt Wheeler Power15 grants
  • Southern Nv Water Authority13 grants
  • White Pine Cnty Commissioners10 grants
  • Nevada Bell Tel Co Dba AT&T Nv Row Dept7 grants
  • Great Basin Transmission South7 grants
  • City of Ely7 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Nevada Bell Telephone Comp D/B/A AT&T Nv R/W Dept51 grants
  • Nevada Bell Tel Co Dba AT&T Nv Row Dept7 grants
  • Great Basin Transmission South5 grants
  • Beehive Telephone Co Inc. Nv4 grants
  • Los Angeles, City of (California) - Department Water & Power3 grants
  • Sierra Pacific Power Company3 grants
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Mt Wheeler Power Inc.55 grants
  • Mt Wheeler Power14 grants
  • Great Basin Transmission LLC3 grants
  • Intermountain Power Agency3 grants
  • Great Basin Transmission South2 grants
  • Nv Energy2 grants
Competing surface use

23,959 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. 18,446 are active, 4,602 newly filed, 400 under review. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.

Oil & gas

47 authorized federal oil and gas leases on 104,901 acres. 5,573 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.

Open mining claims23,959
Active18,446
Filed (new)4,602
Under review400
Authorized oil & gas leases47
Oil & gas acres under lease104,901
What this page can't tell you

The private half of White Pine 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 White Pine 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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