Professional Mining Claim Research Made Simple

Interactive Western Mining Claim Maps

High-precision BLM claim boundaries, property overlays, and offline topo maps built for active prospectors and rockhounds.

If you've ever wished there was an onX-style map built specifically for prospectors, miners, and rockhounds, that's why I built Staked Maps. Move past clunky government legacy databases. Staked Maps provides an instantaneous, responsive mobile lens into current Bureau of Land Management (BLM) mineral data. Trace active mining boundaries, separate lode from placer claims, and map public domain terrains seamlessly on your smartphone or desktop. Whether you are a serious gold prospector, an off-grid rockhound, or an outdoor enthusiast, discover exactly what lies beneath your boots before your next backcountry trip.

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Tracking Every Corner of the Public Domain

While gold panning is a time-honored tradition in the American West, federal mining claims protect far more than precious yellow metal. Staked Maps parses the full legal spectrum of locatable minerals managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Our map engine layers let you effortlessly identify active Lode Claims and riverbed Placer Claims. Whether a district is being worked for historical silver and copper veins, industrial resources, critical battery minerals, or unique gemstone fields, see the exact, pre-calculated boundaries of who owns the rights to a creek or mountain slope instantly. Know exactly where the public domain is open before your next rockhounding trip, pocket of crystals, or pan for loose color.

Built for the Creek Bed, Not the Desk

Staked Maps was born out of pure backcountry frustration. As independent prospectors and outdoor enthusiasts, we spent years attempting to navigate the government's clunky, broken public databases on mobile browser viewports while standing in remote canyons. Standard mapping apps cater broadly to hikers or hunters, leaving miners and rockhounds entirely ignored with flat, outdated mine points.

We engineered Staked Maps to solve this field-utility vacuum. By pairing direct, current federal data connections with an advanced parsing engine, our system takes raw legal survey descriptions and maps individual claim lines accurately. With a strict "One-Button Design Philosophy," we keep our maps simple, fast, and optimized for field navigation; even functioning entirely cell-service free. We don't sell data; we sell the confidence of knowing exactly where you stand on public ground — whether you're staking a claim or out with the rock hounders chasing your next find.

Our Monitored Geography Includes the 13 Core Public Domain Mining States

Alaska (AK), Arizona (AZ), California (CA), Colorado (CO), Idaho (ID), Montana (MT), Nevada (NV), New Mexico (NM), Oregon (OR), South Dakota (SD – Black Hills), Utah (UT), Washington (WA), and Wyoming (WY).

Rockhound Hotspots and the offline basemap layers (elevation contours, trails, water) extend beyond these 13 to all 50 states nationwide.

Sourced From Official Federal Records

Staked Maps isn't crowd-sourced guesswork. Active and historical claim boundaries are parsed directly from the Bureau of Land Management's own MLRS/LR2000 case-recordation system — the same records BLM state offices use internally — and kept in sync with our database on a regular schedule. Rockhound Hotspots draw from the USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS), cross-referenced by material so you can see exactly what's been found at a given site. For legal filings, always confirm current status directly with your BLM state office of record; Staked Maps is a research and navigation tool, not a substitute for the official record.

How Does Staked Maps Turn a Legal Land Description Into an Exact Map Boundary?

Pull up a claim on the BLM's own MLRS/LR2000 system and all you get is a text-only legal description — something like "NE¼ NW¼ Sec. 12, T5N R3W" — with no map and no boundary to actually walk to. Staked Maps reads that same aliquot-part shorthand and instantly draws the precise polygon on the map, calculated from the real surveyed coordinates of that township and range, not a rough guess.

The Public Land Survey System (PLSS) the BLM still uses today divides the West into a grid of townships and ranges, each split into one-mile-square sections (640 acres). A legal description narrows that down with "aliquot parts" — NE, NW, SE, SW — where each added code quarters the area again: one code lands you on a 160-acre quarter section, a second code (e.g. "NE NW") narrows it to the 40-acre quarter-quarter most claims are actually staked at. Our parsing engine walks that code against the real, surveyed origin point of your specific meridian — not a flat grid assumption — so the boundary you see lines up with where the corner monuments actually sit on the ground.