Welcome to the Bureau of Land Management Land and Mineral Records-LR2000 system.
The Bureau of Land Management manages more land--261 million surface acres--than any other Federal agency. Most of this public land is located in the 12 Western States, including Alaska. The BLM, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, also administers 700 million acres of on-shore minerals throughout the nation.
Congress created the General Land Office (GLO) in 1812 to handle the increasing land business from the rapid westward expansion. The GLO was given the responsibility for maintaining the land and mineral records. These and other land and mineral records are now maintained by the BLM, which is entrusted with keeping what today amounts to more than two billion records. Many of these records are now available through this site.
This system provides access to Case Recordation, Legal Land Description (LLD), and Mining Claim Recordation.
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Case Recordation contains information on leases, permits, contracts, grants, agreements, mineral patents, etc. issued by the BLM on federal actions affecting public lands of the United States. Authorizations are issued for the following activities: oil and gas, coal and other minerals, sand, gravel, rights-of-ways, land exchanges and acquisitions, land use withdrawals, mineral patents, land classifications, land claims, land sales, etc. Information on the use authorization includes customer data, location, date of issuance, the actions that have taken place, and other applicable information.
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Legal Land Description contains cadastral survey data including meridian, township, range, section, survey type (aliquot part, lots, homestead survey, mineral survey, tracts, parcels, etc.), acreage, and geopolitical information including the geographic state, county, field office, and surface management agency (BLM, Forest Service, etc.). The surface management agency in LLD is coded as BLM, even when the land is privately owned, unless the land is located within a National Park, National Forest, etc.
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Mining Claim Recordation contains information on unpatented mining claims located on federal lands including claimant name, approximate location, and other applicable information. Mineral patents are not contained in Mining Claim Recordation.
What information is not available through this website?
Information on Alaska records are not available from this site. For
more information, go to the Alaska
State Office website. The original documents including patents (some
are available at the Federal Land Patent Records website), deeds, leases,
public land orders, and case files are not available over this website
but can be viewed in the BLM Information Access Centers. Case Recordation
does not include information on grazing, timber, mineral production,
recreation, or other natural resource programs. For more information
on other programs in the Federal Government use FirstGov.
The Federal Land Patent Records
website contains information on patents issued before 1982, case recordation (see above) contains patents issued after1982.
What is needed to access this system?
To access this system you must use Microsoft Internet Explorer or
Netscape Communicator for your browser. You will also need a "Brio"
plugin which will be provided to you the first time you enter the reports
module. The system will check to see if you currently have a Brio plugin.
If you need this plugin, the system will present you with a series of
screens requesting you to download the plugin which you must complete
prior to running any report. The answers to the download questions are
Begin, Grant, OK and Finish. The Brio plugin could take up to
30 minutes depending on the speed of your Internet connection. The reporting system is available daily from 4:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. mountain time.
Instructions for troubleshooting BRIO plug-in problems.
If you have difficulty installing the Brio plugin you can send a REQUEST TO HELP DESK. If you send an email please provide us with the following information: Name and Version of Browser you are using (Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 4.7), the version of windows, and a brief description of the problem. You might also want to print some of the user guides/codes to use as a desk reference which will aid in the selection of the various query parameters required for a given report. Please read the Introduction to the LR2000 System before you begin.
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How can we improve?
We are working hard to improve our way of doing business with you. Your
feedback on how we're doing is vital to improving our service to you.
Please take a moment to tell us how we can improve your access to our
Land and Mineral Records by using the on-line
feedback form.
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