Nevada Mining Claims & Land Ownership Map
Current BLM claim data, land ownership layers, and rockhounding-ready backcountry navigation for Nevada — built for the field.
Nevada stands as the primary epicenter of American hard-rock mining and desert rockhounding, hosting over a quarter-million active federal unpatented mining claims across vast public domain basins and mountain ranges. From the world-famous Carlin Trend hard-rock gold belts to active placer washes in the Great Basin, Nevada BLM ground contains massive concentrations of precious metals, strategic minerals, and collectible gemstones. Federal domain territory administered by the Bureau of Land Management and United States Forest Service offers unmatched public access for modern prospectors, detectorists, and lapidary collectors.
The state’s complex geological evolution created an extraordinary variety of mineralized environments. Cenozoic extensional faulting, Basin and Range crustal stretching, and widespread Tertiary epithermal volcanic activity injected high-grade gold-silver fissure veins, Carlin-type disseminated gold deposits, and massive lithium placer clays across dry lake beds. Weathering eroded these lodes into alluvial placer gravels in historic gulches, while hydrothermal solutions formed world-renowned lapidary deposits. Rockhounds explore public terrain for Virgin Valley fire opals, high-grade turquoise, variscite, obsidian, wonderstone, and agate.
Successfully prospecting in Nevada requires rigorous boundary verification. Unpatented lode and placer claims tightly blanket proven mineral corridors and dry washes, intermingling with private patent holdings and state trust parcels. Utilizing an active Nevada BLM mining claims map enables panners, detectorists, and field collectors to inspect live federal records, distinguish active claim boundaries from open public domain ground, and navigate remote backcountry desert terrain with total confidence.
244,970
Active Nevada Claims
1,081,241
Historical Nevada Claims
13,895
Nevada Rockhound Hotspots
1,340,106
Total Nevada Claims & Hotspots
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Save any map area while you have cell service, then navigate active BLM mining claims, land ownership boundaries, and optional layers like elevation contours, roads, and creeks — with zero connectivity out in the field. Offline downloads are included on every paid plan. See plans below →
Official Prospecting Resources for Nevada
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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.
Directly from the Bureau of Land Management's official MLRS/LR2000 case-recordation records, synced into our database on a regular schedule — not scraped or crowd-sourced.
Yes. The free tier gives you the interactive claims map, land ownership overlays, and basemap layers for your current state, auto-detected via GPS — no subscription required. Paid plans add more states plus premium data like full legal descriptions, historical claims, offline downloads, and Rockhound Hotspots.
Active claims currently have valid, in-good-standing filings with the BLM. Historical claims are expired or closed filings — still useful for understanding an area's mining history and past activity.
Free users can search by county. Paid plans add search by claim serial number, plus each claim's full legal (aliquot) description and BLM records link.
A premium map layer of known mineral and gem collecting sites — sourced from USGS records and labeled by material where available (e.g. turquoise, opal, jasper) — for rockhounds looking for their next find.
Staked Maps currently tracks 244,970 active and 1,081,241 historical mining claims in Nevada, plus 13,895 Rockhound Hotspots — synced on a regular schedule directly from the BLM's own MLRS records.
Yes — the Nevada claims map covers the entire state today, including Elko County, Nye County, Humboldt County, Lander County and Mineral County. Dedicated pages for each are coming soon.
BLM Locating a Mining Claim Guidelines is Nevada's primary office for filing and researching mining claims — see the Official Filing & Information Links section above for the direct link and more resources.
Information hosted on Staked Maps is compiled from publicly available data streams provided by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and relevant state geographic clearinghouses. Staked Maps accepts no liability for the content of this geospatial data, or for the consequences of any real-world exploration, land entry, or staking actions taken on the basis of the information provided via this application interface.
Staked Maps makes no warranty, expressed or implied, including the warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, nor assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the pinpoint accuracy, reliability, completeness, latency, or programmatic utility of these geospatial data layers, or for the improper interpretation of these data grids.
These mapping layers and related graphics are visual convenience aids only; they are not legal documents and must never be used as such. The data may not be used to legally determine title, mineral ownership, valid description boundaries, jurisdictional authorities, or land restrictions in place on public or private land. Natural backcountry hazards may or may not be depicted on topographies, and land users are strictly mandated to exercise caution. Federal records are dynamic and change constantly. The end-user is exclusively responsible for validating current land classifications with local BLM field offices and managing compliance accordingly.