Wyoming Mining Claims & Land Ownership Map
Current BLM claim data, land ownership layers, and rockhounding-ready backcountry navigation for Wyoming — built for the field.
Wyoming holds an extraordinary mineral estate carved by the Rocky Mountains, high-desert basins, and glaciated river valleys. Across the Wind River Range, the Medicine Bow Mountains, the Granite Mountains, and the volcanic Absarokas, thousands of active Wyoming BLM mining claims encompass high-yield alluvial gold gravels, hard-rock lode veins, and world-class gemstone occurrences. Millions of acres of federal public domain lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM Wyoming State Office) and the United States Forest Service provide vast, accessible terrain for modern prospectors, detectorists, and lapidary collectors.
The state's ancient geological evolution underpins its diverse mineral wealth. Archean greenstone belts, Proterozoic shear zones, and Tertiary volcanic calderas injected rich gold-bearing quartz veins, copper-gold sulfide deposits, and strategic minerals into metamorphic host rocks. Millennia of fluvial erosion weathered these hard-rock lodes, washing heavy placer gold into historic waterways like the Sweetwater River, Douglas Creek, and the Wood River.
Beyond precious yellow metal, public domain territory across Wyoming yields renowned lapidary materials. Rockhounds explore mountain washes, pegmatite outcrops, and desert gravel benches for Wyoming nephrite jade (the state gemstone), Sweetwater moss agates, Turritella agate, quartz crystals, garnets, and petrified wood.
Prospecting in Wyoming requires precise property boundary tracking. Unpatented placer and lode claims line proven river channels and mountain gulches, intermingling with private ranches, state trust lands, and tribal reservation boundaries. Utilizing an active Wyoming BLM mining claims map enables panners, detectorists, and rockhounds to inspect live federal records, distinguish active claim boundaries from open public domain ground, and navigate backcountry mining districts with total confidence.
40,822
Active Wyoming Claims
289,234
Historical Wyoming Claims
4,292
Wyoming Rockhound Hotspots
334,348
Total Wyoming 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 →
1867 South Pass Gold Strike: Gold prospecting in Wyoming erupted in 1867 with the discovery of the Carissa lode near South Pass, setting off a massive rush along the Sweetwater River that birthed historic mining camps like Atlantic City and Lewiston.
Archean & Proterozoic Mineralized Belts: Archean greenstone belts in the Wind River and Granite ranges, alongside Proterozoic shear zones in the Medicine Bow Mountains, injected rich gold-bearing quartz fissure veins and copper-platinum orebodies into metamorphic schists.
Glacio-Fluvial Placer Deposits: Glacial action and deep stream carving weathered hard-rock lodes, concentrating heavy alluvial placer gold across elevated bench gravels and active stream bars along Douglas Creek, the Sweetwater River, and Wood River watersheds.
World-Famous Wyoming Nephrite Jade & Agates: Metamorphic contact zones and Cenozoic volcanic ash beds produced renowned gemstone deposits, yielding world-famous wind-polished nephrite jade "slicks," Sweetwater moss agates, Turritella fossil agates, and petrified wood.
Vast Federal Public Domain Access: Over 18 million acres of public domain land managed by the BLM Wyoming State Office and U.S. Forest Service offer regulated territory for non-commercial gold panning, metal detecting, and gemstone hunting outside active claim lines.
Official Prospecting Resources for Wyoming
What it is: The official federal Bureau of Land Management state office portal governing public domain mineral entry, land records, and unpatented claim filings across Wyoming.
Use case: Submitting new location notices, paying annual federal claim maintenance fees, filing Small Miner's Maintenance Fee Waivers (Form 3830-002), and getting filing assistance from the Cheyenne Public Room.
Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) - Gemstones & Mineral Resources
What it is: The official state geological survey portal providing technical publications, geologic maps, and mineral occurrence records across Wyoming.
Use case: Researching Wyoming nephrite jade occurrences, locating agate and gemstone collecting districts, downloading digital geologic maps, and evaluating state mineral land classifications.
National Park Service - Geologic Resources Scientific Research & Permits
What it is: The official National Park Service administrative portal governing scientific research, geological study guidelines, and specimen collecting permits across National Park System lands.
Use case: Researching federal regulations on geological collecting within park boundaries, understanding scientific research permit requirements for federal parklands in Wyoming, and verifying land management restrictions.
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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 40,822 active and 289,234 historical mining claims in Wyoming, plus 4,292 Rockhound Hotspots — synced on a regular schedule directly from the BLM's own MLRS records.
Yes — the Wyoming claims map covers the entire state today, including Fremont County, Carbon County, Sweetwater County, Park County and Albany County. Dedicated pages for each are coming soon.
BLM Wyoming State Office is Wyoming'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.