Oregon Mining Claims & Land Ownership Map
Current BLM claim data, land ownership layers, and rockhounding-ready backcountry navigation for Oregon — built for the field.
Oregon features a deep prospecting history starting with 1850s gold strikes in Southern Oregon and the Blue Mountains. Today, the state remains a premier destination for gold prospecting in the Pacific Northwest, with thousands of active Oregon BLM mining claims recorded across public domain lands.
Mining activity concentrates in two primary mineral belts: Southwestern Oregon (Josephine, Jackson, and Douglas counties) and Northeastern Oregon (Baker, Grant, and Union counties). Southwestern Oregon is famous for rich alluvial placer gold along Grave Creek, Cow Creek, and the Rogue and Illinois Rivers. Eastern Oregon’s Blue Mountain region holds extensive placer deposits along the Powder and Burnt Rivers alongside lode claims on hard-rock quartz veins.
Navigating Oregon gold prospecting requires tracking public land boundaries and claim status. Unpatented placer claims and lode claims on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and US Forest Service (USFS) lands grant exclusive mineral rights to claim holders. Beyond gold, Oregon public land contains strategic mineral deposits and gem deposits like Oregon sunstones, thundereggs, and agates.
Verifying open public domain land before entering the field is essential to avoid claim-jumping. Using an active Oregon mining claims map lets prospectors track live BLM MLRS records, identify placer and lode boundaries, and locate unclaimed public domain ground.
9,637
Active Oregon Claims
173,095
Historical Oregon Claims
9,701
Oregon Rockhound Hotspots
192,433
Total Oregon Claims & Hotspots
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Official Prospecting Resources for Oregon
What it is: The official Bureau of Land Management Mineral & Land Records System (MLRS) online portal.
Use case: Researching official federal claim serial numbers, verifying recorded claim holders, and submitting maintenance fees or annual filings online.
What it is: The official state-level BLM handbook for staking and locating mining claims on public domain lands in Oregon and Washington.
Use case: Clear instructions on state-specific location notices, county recording deadlines, BLM filing fees, and boundary marking rules.
What it is: The official Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries state regulatory page.
Use case: Guidance on state-level mining requirements, including motorized equipment permits (suction dredging, highbanking), surface mining operating permits, and environmental reclamation rules.
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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 9,637 active and 173,095 historical mining claims in Oregon, plus 9,701 Rockhound Hotspots — synced on a regular schedule directly from the BLM's own MLRS records.
Yes — the Oregon claims map covers the entire state today, including Baker County, Grant County, Jackson County and Josephine County. Dedicated pages for each are coming soon.
BLM MLRS Research & Filing Portal is Oregon'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.