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

Klamath County has no active federal geothermal leases today, but 216 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before. 340 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 43 fiber or telecom grants and 42 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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0
Authorized federal geothermal leases
340
Active rights-of-way on federal land
1 new in 12 months
43
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
42
Transmission & power line ROWs
5
Open mining claims
5 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: 216 closed federal geothermal leases, none active.

216 leases on 584,445 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 record216 · 584,445 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

340 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Klamath County, 1 of them issued in the last twelve months. 11 applications are pending.

Of those, 43 fiber optic or communication grants, 42 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.

Authorized ROWs by type
Non-Energy Facilities
261
Other Energy Facilities
47
Fiber Optic Facilities
8
None
8
Distribution Line
5
Transmission Line
3
Interstate Energy Facilities
2
Holders on record (all types)
  • Pacificorp25 grants
  • Gilchrist Timber Co8 grants
  • Weyerhaeuser Co8 grants
  • Pacific Pwr & Light6 grants
  • Central Pac Ry Co6 grants
  • Centurytel of Eastern Oregon5 grants
  • Midstate Elec Coop5 grants
  • Great Northern Rr4 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Centurytel of Eastern Oregon5 grants
  • Qwest Corp3 grants
  • Qwest Corp Dba Centurylink Qc2 grants
  • Centurytel of Eastern Oregon D/B/A Centurylink2 grants
  • Hunter Communications, Inc.2 grants
  • California Oregon Broadcasting Inc.2 grants
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Pacificorp21 grants
  • Pacific Pwr & Light6 grants
  • Midstate Elec Coop5 grants
  • *Pacificorp2 grants
  • Pacific Power & Light Co2 grants
  • Pacificorp - Rights of Way2 grants
Competing surface use

5 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. 5 are active. 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 73 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims5
Active5
Filed (new)0
Under review0
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Klamath 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 Klamath 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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