Stevens County, WA Mining Claims & Land Ownership Map
Current BLM claim data, land ownership layers, and rockhounding-ready backcountry navigation for Stevens County, WA — built for the field.
Stevens County, WA Mining Claims & Land Ownership Map
Current BLM claim data, land ownership layers, and rockhounding-ready backcountry navigation for Stevens County, WA — built for the field.
Stevens County occupies the northeast corner of Washington State, bounded by the Columbia River to the west and the Selkirk Mountains to the east. Renowned for historic placer gold diggings along the Columbia River and rich polymetallic lodes in the Cedar Canyon, Orient, and Bossburg districts, the region draws gold panners, detectorists, and mineral collectors. Expansive public domain lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (Spokane District Office) and the Colville National Forest offer open space for small-scale placer prospecting and surface gemstone collecting outside recorded claim boundaries.
Geologically, Stevens County features a complex Precambrian to Paleozoic metasedimentary sequence of quartzite, dolomite, and limestone intruded by Mesozoic granitic plutons. Hydrothermal solutions injected gold-bearing pyritic quartz veins, silver-lead-zinc replacement orebodies, and copper lodes into faulted host rocks. Fluvial erosion weathered these hard-rock lodes, sweeping heavy placer gold into ancient bench gravels and active stream bars along the Columbia River, Kettle River, and Cedar Creek watersheds.
Out on surrounding public domain slopes, metamorphic contact zones yield abundant lapidary materials, including banded agates, jasper, garnets, tremolite, and staurolite crystals ("fairy crosses"). Navigating Stevens County prospecting requires clear property boundary tracking. High-yield placer streams and lode districts contain active unpatented claims, tightly interlocking with private agricultural ranches and tribal lands. Referencing an active Stevens County mining claims map enables panners and field collectors to inspect current federal BLM records, verify open public domain ground, and explore with complete confidence.
82
Current / Not-Closed Stevens County, WA Claim Records
6,172
Historical Stevens County, WA Claims
550
Stevens County, WA Rockhound Hotspots
6,804
Total Stevens County, WA Claims & Hotspots
528
Metallic Sites
22
Non-Metallic Sites
Notable finds: Serpentine · Fluorite · Beryl · Garnet · Gem And Ornamental Stones
| Material | Sites Recorded |
|---|---|
| Serpentine | 8 |
| Fluorite | 5 |
| Beryl | 4 |
| Garnet | 4 |
| Gem And Ornamental Stones | 1 |
71
Lode Claims
11
Placer Claims
| Claim Type | Current Claims |
|---|---|
| Lode Claims | 71 (86.6%) |
| Placer Claims | 11 (13.4%) |
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Official Prospecting Resources for Stevens County, WA
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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 82 current federal mining claim/site records and 6,172 historical claim records from BLM MLRS, plus 550 Stevens County, WA 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 Washington, not just Stevens County. Other Washington counties with a dedicated page: Kittitas County, Snohomish County, Okanogan County and Chelan County.
Regulatory and editorial content last reviewed against official records · Source: USGS MRDS
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