Iron County, UT Mining Claims & Land Ownership Map
Current BLM claim data, land ownership layers, and rockhounding-ready backcountry navigation for Iron County, UT — built for the field.
Iron County, UT Mining Claims & Land Ownership Map
Current BLM claim data, land ownership layers, and rockhounding-ready backcountry navigation for Iron County, UT — built for the field.
Iron County sits in Southwestern Utah, spanning from the high forested plateaus of Cedar Mountain and the Markagunt Plateau down through the historic Iron Springs Mining District and desert basins surrounding Parowan and Escalante Valley. Famed for massive iron ore deposits that supplied Utah's early steel industry alongside rich agate, jasper, and localized placer gold washes, the county draws modern prospectors, detectorists, and lapidary collectors. Expansive public domain lands managed by the BLM Cedar City Field Office and the Dixie National Forest offer abundant space for field exploration.
Geologically, Iron County occupies a dynamic transition zone between the Basin and Range province and the High Plateaus of the Colorado Plateau. Laramide and Tertiary laccolith intrusions penetrated Paleozoic limestones, forming world-class iron replacement orebodies at Iron Springs alongside gold-bearing quartz veins in surrounding gulches. Arid weathering and flash floods eroded hard-rock lodes, distributing placer gold and copper minerals across dry washes in the Stateline and Gold Springs districts.
For rockhounds, public terrain yields colorful banded agate, carnelian, jasper, petrified wood, and quartz crystals. Prospecting in Iron County requires strict spatial boundary tracking, as active unpatented placer and lode claims line proven mineral belts, interlocking with private ranches, state trust land, and Dixie National Forest reserves. Utilizing an active Iron County mining claims map allows dry-washers, detectorists, and rockhounds to check live federal records, confirm unclaimed public domain ground, and navigate backcountry access routes legally and safely.
2,107
Current / Not-Closed Iron County, UT Claim Records
10,355
Historical Iron County, UT Claims
163
Iron County, UT Rockhound Hotspots
12,625
Total Iron County, UT Claims & Hotspots
160
Metallic Sites
3
Non-Metallic Sites
Notable finds: Gemstone
| Material | Sites Recorded |
|---|---|
| Gemstone | 3 |
2,058
Lode Claims
36
Placer Claims
| Claim Type | Current Claims |
|---|---|
| Lode Claims | 2,058 (98.3%) |
| Placer Claims | 36 (1.7%) |
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Official Prospecting Resources for Iron County, UT
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Staked Maps isn't crowd-sourced guesswork. Current and historical claim boundaries are parsed directly from the Bureau of Land Management's Mineral & Land Records System (MLRS), which replaced the legacy LR2000 mining claim system in 2021, 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 (Mineral & Land Records System) case-recordation records, synced into our database on a regular schedule — not scraped or crowd-sourced.
Staked Maps displays the status reported by BLM. Records with a case disposition of Active are labeled Active; historical records come from BLM's closed-claims dataset. These statuses are research information, not a Staked Maps legal determination of claim validity, discovery, ownership or compliance. Verify the current record through MLRS before acting on it.
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.
Staked Maps currently tracks 2,107 current federal mining claim/site records and 10,355 historical claim records from BLM MLRS, plus 163 Iron County, UT mineral-occurrence records derived from USGS MRDS.
A premium map layer of documented mineral occurrences, prospects and mines sourced from USGS MRDS and labeled by material where available. These records are research leads, not a directory of verified public collecting sites.
Yes — the live map covers all of Utah, not just Iron County. Other Utah counties with a dedicated page: Juab County, Beaver County, Tooele County and Millard County.
Iron County Recorder Office is Iron County, UT's primary office for filing and researching mining claims — see the Official Filing & Information Links section above for the direct link and more resources.
Regulatory and editorial content last reviewed against official records · Source: Iron County Recorder Office · USGS MRDS
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