Tooele County, UT Mining Claims & Land Ownership Map
Current BLM claim data, land ownership layers, and rockhounding-ready backcountry navigation for Tooele County, UT — built for the field.
Tooele County spans a vast, mineral-rich desert landscape in Northwestern Utah, extending from the western slopes of the Oquirrh Mountains across the Stansbury and Deep Creek ranges to the Great Salt Lake Desert. Anchored by historic gold, silver, and copper districts like Stockton, Ophir, and Mercur, the county holds a dense concentration of active federal mining claims. Modern prospectors, metal detectorists, and rockhounds explore public domain lands managed by the BLM Salt Lake Field Office for placer gold, lode specimens, and collectible minerals.
Geologically, Tooele County is defined by Basin and Range fault-block mountain uplifts, Paleozoic sedimentary strata, and Tertiary intrusive stocks. Hydrothermal fluids injected gold-bearing quartz veins, silver-lead replacement bodies, and copper-zinc ores throughout fault zones, establishing world-class lodes at Mercur and Ophir. Weathering eroded these hard-rock deposits, concentrating placer gold in dry gulches, while western ranges like the Ibapah and Deep Creek mountains yield beryl, aquamarine, fluorite, and topaz.
Navigating prospecting in Tooele County demands strict boundary awareness. Active unpatented placer and lode claims line primary mountain drainages and historic mining slopes, closely interlocking with private patented mine properties, military reservations, and state trust parcels. Utilizing an active Tooele County mining claims map enables panners and detectorists to cross-reference live federal BLM records, verify open public domain land, and navigate backcountry roads legally and safely.
3,767
Active Tooele County, UT Claims
36,656
Historical Tooele County, UT Claims
1,208
Tooele County, UT Rockhound Hotspots
41,631
Total Tooele County, UT Claims & Hotspots
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Official Prospecting Resources for Tooele County, UT
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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 3,767 active and 36,656 historical mining claims in Tooele County, UT, plus 1,208 Rockhound Hotspots — synced on a regular schedule directly from the BLM's own MLRS records.
Yes — the live map covers all of Utah, not just Tooele County. Other Utah counties with a dedicated page: Juab County, Beaver County, Millard County and Iron County.
Tooele County Recorder Office is Tooele 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.
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.