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

Lake County has no active federal geothermal leases today, but 380 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before. 335 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 32 fiber or telecom grants and 54 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
335
Active rights-of-way on federal land
7 new in 12 months
32
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
54
Transmission & power line ROWs
753
Open mining claims
715 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: 380 closed federal geothermal leases, none active.

380 leases on 1,043,516 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 record380 · 1,043,516 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

335 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Lake County, 7 of them issued in the last twelve months. 7 applications are pending.

Of those, 32 fiber optic or communication grants, 54 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
265
Other Energy Facilities
55
Fiber Optic Facilities
5
Distribution Line
4
Interstate Energy Facilities
2
None
2
Transmission Line
2
Holders on record (all types)
  • Midstate Elec Coop20 grants
  • Surprise Valley Elec17 grants
  • Harney Electric Coop11 grants
  • Centurytel of Eastern Oregon9 grants
  • Weyerhaeuser Co9 grants
  • Bonneville Power Admn4 grants
  • Archway Solar Energy LLC3 grants
  • New Cingular Wireless Pcs LLC3 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Centurytel of Eastern Oregon9 grants
  • Centurytel of Eastern Oregon D/B/A Centurylink2 grants
  • Oregon Dept of Transportation State Radio Project2 grants
  • Oregon Deptartment of Transportation Isb1 grant
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting1 grant
  • Pacificorp1 grant
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Midstate Elec Coop20 grants
  • Surprise Valley Elec17 grants
  • Harney Electric Coop11 grants
  • Los Angeles, City of (California) - Department Water & Power1 grant
  • Pacificorp1 grant
  • Pacificorp - Rights of Way1 grant
Competing surface use

753 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. 715 are active, 37 newly filed, 1 under review. 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 405 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims753
Active715
Filed (new)37
Under review1
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Lake 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 Lake 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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