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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.

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8
Authorized federal geothermal leases
22,700 acres
213
Active rights-of-way on federal land
1 new in 12 months
53
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
56
Transmission & power line ROWs
752
Open mining claims
456 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

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.

Authorized leases8
Acres under authorized lease22,700
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)8
Pending applications0
New leases, last 12 months8 · 22,700 ac
Closed / relinquished on record0
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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.

Authorized ROWs by type
Non-Energy Facilities
114
Other Energy Facilities
58
Oil & Gas Facilities
28
Fiber Optic Facilities
12
Wind Energy Facilities
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Columbus Elec Coop25 grants
  • El Paso Natural Gas Co23 grants
  • Qwest Corporation12 grants
  • El Paso Electric Co11 grants
  • Valley Tel Coop Inc.8 grants
  • Public Service Company of New Mexico6 grants
  • Columbus Electric Coop Inc.5 grants
  • Union Pacific Rr Co4 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Qwest Corporation12 grants
  • Valley Tel Coop Inc.8 grants
  • Valley Telephone Cooperative Inc.3 grants
  • Qwest Corp3 grants
  • Doj Border Patrol2 grants
  • El Paso Electric Co1 grant
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Columbus Elec Coop24 grants
  • El Paso Electric Co10 grants
  • Public Service Company of New Mexico6 grants
  • Columbus Electric Coop Inc.5 grants
  • El Paso Natural Gas Co4 grants
  • Public Service Co of Nm1 grant
Competing surface use

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 & gas

No authorized federal oil and gas leases, but 1,165 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims752
Active456
Filed (new)296
Under review0
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

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.

How we work here
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  • 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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