Land, title & right-of-way services in Luna County, New Mexico
Luna County has 8 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 22,700 acres, 8 of them flagged as non-producing. 213 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 53 fiber or telecom grants and 56 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.
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.
8 federal geothermal leases on 22,700 acres.
8 authorized leases cover 22,700 acres of federal ground in Luna County. 8 are flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed.
8 new leases on 22,700 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.
56 transmission and power line rights-of-way cross federal ground here.
213 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Luna County, 1 of them issued in the last twelve months. 4 applications are pending.
Of those, 53 fiber optic or communication grants, 56 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 28 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.
- 25 grants
- 23 grants
- 12 grants
- 11 grants
- 8 grants
- 6 grants
- 5 grants
- 4 grants
- 12 grants
- 8 grants
- 3 grants
- 3 grants
- 2 grants
- 1 grant
- 24 grants
- 10 grants
- 6 grants
- 5 grants
- 4 grants
- 1 grant
752 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. 456 are active, 296 newly filed. Which ones actually sit in your footprint is a mapping question, and we answer it tract by tract.
Oil & gasNo authorized federal oil and gas leases, but 1,165 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.
The private half of Luna 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 Luna County recorder's office, and it is the step that decides whether you can actually lease the ground.
- Free EvalA self-serve read on your target area in the county.
- Area AssessmentFlat 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 & acquisitionCounty title, tract by tract, with surface, mineral, and geothermal estates run separately. Then we lease it.