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Land, title & right-of-way services in Iron County, Utah

Iron County has 12 authorized federal geothermal leases covering 38,154 acres, 12 of them flagged as non-producing. 317 active right-of-ways cross federal land here, including 54 fiber or telecom grants and 53 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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12
Authorized federal geothermal leases
38,154 acres
317
Active rights-of-way on federal land
6 new in 12 months
54
Fiber & telecom rights-of-way
53
Transmission & power line ROWs
2,236
Open mining claims
1,326 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

38,154 acres under federal geothermal lease, 12 leases held without production.

12 authorized leases cover 38,154 acres of federal ground in Iron County. 12 are flagged non-producing, which means that acreage is being held rather than developed.

34 leases on 51,082 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 leases12
Acres under authorized lease38,154
Producing0
Non-producing (held, not developed)12
Pending applications0
New leases, last 12 months0
Closed / relinquished on record34 · 51,082 ac
Rights-of-way · transmission & telecom

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

317 authorized right-of-ways and land use authorizations touch federal land in Iron County, 6 of them issued in the last twelve months. 12 applications are pending.

Of those, 54 fiber optic or communication grants, 53 transmission, distribution, or energy-facility grants, 9 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
221
Other Energy Facilities
60
Fiber Optic Facilities
24
Oil & Gas Facilities
9
Interstate Energy Facilities
1
Transmission Line
1
Water
1
Holders on record (all types)
  • Cedar City Corp17 grants
  • Pacificorp Dba Upl13 grants
  • Pacificorp Dba Rocky Mtn Pwr12 grants
  • Qwest Corp7 grants
  • South Central Utah Telephone Company7 grants
  • Questar Gas Co6 grants
  • La & Sl Rr6 grants
  • Pacificorp6 grants
Fiber & telecom holders
  • Qwest Corp7 grants
  • South Central Utah Telephone Company7 grants
  • Qwest Corporation, D/B/A Centurylink Qc3 grants
  • South Central Communications3 grants
  • Iron County (Utah)2 grants
  • Iron County Road Dept1 grant
Transmission & energy-facility holders
  • Pacificorp Dba Upl13 grants
  • Pacificorp Dba Rocky Mtn Pwr10 grants
  • Pacificorp6 grants
  • Pacificorp (Wyr01)4 grants
  • Dixie Power4 grants
  • Enterprise, City of (Utah)2 grants
Competing surface use

2,236 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. 1,326 are active, 907 newly filed, 3 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 1,201 closed leases on record. The ground has been tried before.

Open mining claims2,236
Active1,326
Filed (new)907
Under review3
Authorized oil & gas leases0
Oil & gas acres under lease0
What this page can't tell you

The private half of Iron 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 Iron 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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