Bureau of Land Management in Partnership with the U.S. Forest Service




Map Layers

 

The following information is available in GeoCommunicator's Land and Mineral Use Records Viewer. The parcels display pending, authorized, and closed cases unless otherwise specified. Most of the map layers are available as map services. The casetypes are listed after the name of the layer, e.g. 286000.

Available Map Layers
Common layers across most map viewers

Rights-of-Ways:

ROW layer is available in all maps except Rangeland

  • Communication Sites (Casetype: 286000-286200)
  • Pipelines (288000-289000)
  • Power (285000-286000)
  • Railroads (284000-285000)
  • Roads (281000-283000)
  • Telephone & Telegraph (286200-287001)
  • Water Facilities (287000-288000)
  • General (280000-281000)
  • Other (Type >289000)

Cases affecting Land Status:

Cases layer is available in all maps except Rangeland

  • Acquisitions
  • Corrective
  • Designated Areas
  • Exchanges
  • Grants
  • Land Disposals
  • Land Sales
  • Mineral Patents
  • Pending Exchanges
  • Public Law 167
  • Withdrawals & Classifications

Subsurface Mineral Estate
(For WY & NM only):

  • All US Minerals
  • Coal Only
  • Oil, Gas & Coal Only
  • Oil & Gas Only
  • Other Minerals

Surface Management Agencies(SMA):

  • BLM National Conservation Areas
  • BLM National Monuments
  • BLM Wilderness Areas
  • BLM
  • U.S. Forest Service
  • National Park Services
  • Bureau of Indian Affairs
  • Bureau of Reclamation
  • DOD - Military
  • U.S. Fish & Wildlife
  • Bankhead Jones
  • Other Federal
  • State
  • State/County/City

PLSS (Survey & Unsurveyed Data), includes labels and acreages:

  • Townships
  • Sections
  • Quarter-Quarter
  • Minor Subdivision (lots, aliquot parts)
  • Smallest Division Boundaries

Reference Themes:

Some of these layers are being streamed live from The National Map (TNM).

  • Major Roads and Highways
  • Roads (TNM)
  • Lakes (TNM)
  • Rivers (TNM)
  • Urban Areas
  • National Forests
  • State Boundaries
  • County boundaries
  • 1:100,000 Scale Quad Boundaries
  • Hydrologic Unit Codes (HUC)

Base Maps:

Some of these layers are being streamed live from other sources.

  • NGS_Topo_US_2D (ESRI)
  • MDA_Satellite_World_2D (ESRI)
  • ESRI_StreetMap_World_2D (ESRI)
  • Imagery_Prime_World_2D (ESRI)
  • Topography Map (MS Terraserver -USGS)
  • Ortho Aerial Photography (MS Terraserver -USGS
  • Surface Management Agency
  • BLM Administration Areas
  • PLSS Principal Meridians
  • Shaded Relief
Map Viewers
Map Layers
Energy Map Viewer

Oil and Gas Agreements

  • Unit Agreements (Casetype: 318210-318290, except 318230 and 318291)
  • Participating Area Agreements (318230, 318291)
  • Communization Agreements (318310-318330)
  • Other Agreements (318110-318130, 318410-318510)

Oil and Gas Leases

  • Leases (Casetype 31s except 318xxx)
  • Lease Sale Parcels
  • Stipulations

Oil and Gas Densities

Oil Shale Leases (Casetypes: 355701 & 355702)

Coal Authorizations (34xxxx)

  • Coal (Leases, Licenses & Permits)
  • Logical Mining Units

Geothermal Agreements

  • Unit Agreements (Casetype: 328200-328240, except 328230)
  • Participating Area Agreements (328230)
  • Communization Agreements (328300)
  • Other Agreements (328110, 328120, 328500)

Geothermal Leases

  • Leases ( 32xxxx except 328xxx)
  • Known Leasing Areas (320070)

Solar Energy Rights-of-Way

Wind Energy Rights-of-Way

Mining Claims

Mining Plans & Notices (380xxx - 382xxx)

Mining Claims (Active & Closed) for the following case types:

  • Lode Claims (Casetype: 384101, 384103)
  • Placer Claims (384201, 384203)
  • Tunnel Sites (384301,384303)
  • Millsite Claims (384401, 384403)
Solid Minerals and Non-mineral Leasing

Coal Authorizations (34xxxx)

  • Coal (Leases, Licenses & Permits)
  • Logical Mining Units

Other Solid Minerals (Leases, Licenses & Permits): (35xxxx)

  • Phosphate, Sodium, Gilsonite, Sulphur, Potassium, and more

Known Leasing Areas (350006)

Non-Mineral Lease/Permits/Contracts (29xxxx)

Mineral Material Disposals (36xxxx)

  • Sand, Gravel, Community Pits, and more
Rangeland

Range Allotments (see reports in LR2000 section)

  • Allotments
  • Pastures
Land Status

Boundaries

  • State Boundaries
  • County Boundaries
  • Proclaimed Forests
  • Administrative Forests
  • Ranger Districts
  • NFF Regions

Regulated Uses - U.S. Forest Service

  • Easements
  • Wilderness
  • Wild Scenic Rivers
  • Special Interest Management areas
  • Right Restrictions
  • Recreation Areas
  • Other Nationally Designated Areas
  • Mineral Uses
  • Military reserve
  • Developed Sites
Healthy Lands
  • Rangeland Allotments and Pastures
  • Impaired Watershed
  • Section 303 Listed Waters

Site Mapper

Provides latitude and longitude of abandoned mines, BLM recreation sites, campgrounds, administrative sites, and buildings, along with all of the other BLM map layers.

See Site Mapper home page for more information about the data sources.

 

National Mine Land Inventory

  • BLM - Coal
  • BLM - Non Coal

National Mine Land Inventory - Other Sources

  • EPA - CERCLIS
  • EPA - Uranium
  • MSHA - Coal/Non Coal
  • OSM/AMLIS - Coal/Non Coal

Mine Site Names

  • CA-TOMS
  • USGS-GNIS

Environmental

  • Impaired Watersheds
  • Section 303 Listed Waters

BLM Facilities

  • Recreation Sites, Administrative Sites , Campgrounds , Buildings

All other BLM layers are available in this map viewer along with reference themes and base maps.

Reports available from the Identify or the Search Results

Legacy Rehost 2000 (LR2000 Reports):

Serial Register Page and Township Geographic Reports

Serial Register Page (Case Recordation, Mining Claim, Status) provides customer data, location, date of issuance, the actions that have taken place, and other applicable information for each case. This LR2000 report is available from the:

  • Identify window under the Mining Claims, Oil and Gas, Geothermal, ROW, Other and Cases tabs.
  • Case Record Search results
  • Oil & Gas Search results
  • Mining Claim Search results

Mining Claim (MC) Geographic Report provides a listing of active and closed mining claims by legal land description for the township. This MC LR2000 report is available from the:

  • Identify window under the PLSS tab
  • Township Search results

Authorization or Case Recordation Geographic Report provides a listing of cases from the Case Recordation system in LR2000 displaying the legal land description, the type, and the disposition within a specific township. This case list will include authorizations such as: oil, gas, geothermal, coal, rights-of-way, mineral material disposal, mineral leasing, conveyances (after 1984), withdrawals (after 1984), and classifications (after 1984). This report is available from the:

  • Identify window under the PLSS tab
  • Township Search results

Cases or the LR2000 Status Geographic Report provides a listing of cases from the Status system in LR2000 displaying the legal land description, the type , and the disposition within a specific township. The case list will include conveyances such as mineral patents, land and mineral title documents, withdrawals, and classification that occur prior to 1984. This report is available from the :

  • Identify window under the PLSS tab
  • Township Search results

Rangeland Reports

Links to Rangeland Allotment Reports

Allotment Master provides the authorized AUMs, land, type of animals allowed, etc. for an allotment. The permittee name is not available at this time. This report is available from the:

  • Identify window under the Rangeland tab
  • Range Allotment Search results

Allotment Use provides the actual use that occurred and schedule for an allotment. This report is available in:

  • Identify window under the Rangeland tab
  • Range Allotment Search results

Master Title Plats

Links to BLM state office master title plats are available from some states.

The Master Title Plat provides a scanned image of the land status and authorized use for a township. It is available for for certain states. This report is available from:

  • Identify window under the PLSS tab in the hyperlink column
  • Township Search results