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

Deschutes County has 20 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 15,933 acres, 17 of them flagged as non-producing. 324 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 58 fiber or telecom grants and 71 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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15,933 acres under federal geothermal lease, 17 leases held without production.

20 authorized leases cover 15,933 acres of federal ground in Deschutes County. 17 are flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed. BLM leaves the production flag blank on 3, so the record understates what is actually online.

1 application is pending. A pending case is a company that has declared intent in a specific place before doing its private-side land work.

472 leases on 772,548 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.

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

324 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Deschutes County, 4 of them issued in the last twelve months. 23 applications are pending.

Of those, 58 fiber optic or communication grants, 71 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 2 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.

No open mining claims on federal land here.

That removes one of the more common siting conflicts on Western federal ground. It does not say anything about private mineral ownership, which lives in the county record.

No authorized federal oil and gas leases, but 169 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

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

• 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.