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Geothermal · Telecom & fiber

Land, title & right-of-way services in Crook County, Oregon

Crook County has no active federal geothermal leases today, but 14 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before. 224 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 39 fiber or telecom grants and 17 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
224
Active rights-of-way on federal land
6 new in 12 months
39
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
17
Transmission & power line ROWs
35
Open mining claims
32 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

Leased and released: 14 closed federal geothermal leases, none active.

14 leases on 28,746 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 leases0
Acres under authorized lease0
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)0
Pending applications0
New leases, last 12 months0
Closed / relinquished on record14 · 28,746 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

224 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Crook County, 6 of them issued in the last twelve months. 29 applications are pending.

Of those, 39 fiber optic or communication grants, 17 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
187
Distribution Line
13
Other Energy Facilities
12
Fiber Optic Facilities
10
All Material Resource-S
1
Interstate Energy Facilities
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Central Elec Co-Op11 grants
  • Qwest Corp5 grants
  • Central Electric Cooperative Inc.3 grants
  • Tds Broadband Service LLC Dba Bendbroadband3 grants
  • Zayo Group LLC3 grants
  • Centurytel of Eastern Oregon D/B/A Centurylink3 grants
  • 4-R Equipment LLC2 grants
  • Avion Water Co Inc.2 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Qwest Corp5 grants
  • Tds Broadband Service LLC Dba Bendbroadband3 grants
  • Centurytel of Eastern Oregon D/B/A Centurylink3 grants
  • Zayo Group LLC3 grants
  • Centurytel of Eastern Oregon2 grants
  • Crook County Sheriffs Office1 grant
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Central Elec Co-Op11 grants
  • Central Electric Cooperative Inc.2 grants
  • Pacific Power1 grant
  • Pacificorp1 grant
  • Pacificorp - Rights of Way1 grant
Competing surface use

35 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. 32 are active, 3 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 1,077 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims35
Active32
Filed (new)3
Under review0
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Crook 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 Crook 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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    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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