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Geothermal · Mining claims

Land, title & right-of-way services in Grant County, New Mexico

Grant County has no federal geothermal leasing on record. 149 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 25 fiber or telecom grants and 38 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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Authorized federal geothermal leases
149
Active rights-of-way on federal land
2 new in 12 months
25
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
38
Transmission & power line ROWs
5,145
Open mining claims
4,669 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

No federal geothermal leasing on record here.

The federal layer is quiet. That can mean the resource isn't there, or that the ground is private and state and never shows up in BLM's record. The second case is common across the West, and it's where title work starts.

Authorized leases0
Acres under authorized lease0
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)0
Pending applications0
New leases, last 12 months0
Closed / relinquished on record0
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

149 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Grant County, 2 of them issued in the last twelve months. 4 applications are pending.

Of those, 25 fiber optic or communication grants, 38 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 15 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
82
Other Energy Facilities
42
Oil & Gas Facilities
15
Fiber Optic Facilities
10
Holders on record (all types)
  • Public Service Company of New Mexico16 grants
  • El Paso Natural Gas Co12 grants
  • Columbus Elec Coop10 grants
  • Western Nm Telephone Co7 grants
  • Valley Tel Coop Inc.4 grants
  • Qwest Corporation4 grants
  • Duncan Valley Elec4 grants
  • Greenwood Canyon Ranch Owners Assoc3 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Western Nm Telephone Co7 grants
  • Valley Tel Coop Inc.4 grants
  • Qwest Corporation4 grants
  • AT&T Gre Lease Admin2 grants
  • Western New Mexico Communications2 grants
  • Kob Tv LLC1 grant
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Public Service Company of New Mexico16 grants
  • Columbus Elec Coop10 grants
  • Duncan Valley Elec4 grants
  • Columbus Electric Coop Inc.2 grants
  • Kennecott Copper1 grant
  • Riosol Transmission LLC1 grant
Competing surface use

5,145 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. 4,669 are active, 229 newly filed, 247 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 461 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims5,145
Active4,669
Filed (new)229
Under review247
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Grant 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 Grant County recorder's office, and it is the step that decides whether you can actually lease the ground.

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  • 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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