Administrative Areas Coal Leases Overview
Bureau of Land Management Administrative Areas oversees 1,972 coal leases. Of the lease records managed by the Administrative Areas, 16.98% are authorized, 1.47% are pending, and 74.84% are closed. Oversite of these federal lands is divided into Administrative States—Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.
- Total Leases
- 1,972
- Authorized Leases
- 335
- Pending Leases
- 29
- Closed Leases
- 1,476
- Expired Leases
- 15
- Withdrawn Leases
- 2
- Relinquished Leases
- 6
- Rejected Leases
- 1
- Cancelled Leases
- 108
- Authorized Acres
- 907,540
- Pending Acres
- 69,008
Browse Leases By Administrative State
Total LeasesPending LeasesClosed LeasesCancelled LeasesRejected LeasesExpired LeasesRelinquished LeasesWithdrawn Leases
Wyoming
475
3
347
0
0
9
1
0
Utah
412
5
339
0
0
0
0
0
Colorado
359
5
294
0
0
3
0
1
New Mexico
339
5
202
107
0
0
0
1
Montana
236
6
160
1
0
3
0
0
Eastern States
139
5
124
0
1
0
5
0
Oregon
9
0
7
0
0
0
0
0
Idaho
2
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
California
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
Remaining States
While the national oversight of public lands is broken down by "Administrative States," this is a bit of a misnomer. These administrative units are, indeed named after states: Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, and Eastern States. Yet, they are not necessarily constrained by state borders.
Below, we list the BLM states with the geographic states that are contained in them.
BLM Offices Map
- Alaska
- California
- Nevada
- Oregon
- Arizona
- Utah
- Idaho
- Wyoming
- Colorado
- New Mexico
- Montana
- Eastern States
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- Alaska
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Idaho
- Montana
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Kansas
- Oregon
- Washington
- Utah
- Wyoming
- Nebraska
- Eastern States
Eastern States
Milwaukee Field Office
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- New York
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
Jackson Field Office
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Florida
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Mississippi
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Virginia
Coal Lease News From The Coal Fields™
Learn more about the Bureau of Land Management, Public Land Survey System, and coal leases.
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Understanding Lease Ownership
We receive lots of emails from people who find their name or a relative’s name on our site and want to know if this means they have some right to the land listed under that name.
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Understanding BLM Administrative Areas
Whether it is filing a lease or researching one, the administering BLM office is going to be the definitive source.
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Understanding Location Data
Lease handled by the Bureau of Land Management are not mapped by latitude and longitude, instead, these leases harken back to the Public Land Survey System.
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Understanding Townships
A “township” can refer to two different things. Both are part of the PLSS measurement system but have different uses.
