Blm Mineral & Land Records System

[GeoBill]

Back online.

 

[Clay Diggins]

They are back up but they have removed 91% of the claimant names and addresses and all of the case files.

A definite hit on the usefulness of their system.

Land Matters maps do still display claimant names to help your searches.

[GeoBill]

And then if you know a claimant name you can still search and find all claims ever registered under that name. Run a Customer Info Report using MASSIE and you'll still see practically every claim in the history of the GPAA. Like Clay pointed out, using Land Matters in conjunction with the crippled BLM still gives you almost all the info you'd need.

Cheers

Bill

[GeoBill]

3 hours ago, Clay Diggins said:

They are back up but they have removed 91% of the claimant names and addresses and all of the case files.

A definite hit on the usefulness of their system.

Land Matters maps do still display claimant names to help your searches.

Clay, is Land Matters able to do this because their data is from a data pull prior to the BLM shutting down the records system and then only updating changes to files that don't include the claimant info? Will Land Matters data still include the claimant info for new claims moving forward?

Thanks

Bill

[Clay Diggins]

Good question Bill and and an accurate assessment. 😊

We do use the previously available public files to insert customer names when we update the databases. This does leave out any new claimants names. (New claimants being those who have never had a case entry in the BLM database before they began the redactions).

When a new claimant owns a mining claim on Land Matters maps you will see the phrase "REMOVED BY BLM" in place of the name. Often these will be mixed with other claimant names that are not "new" claimants. There aren't a lot of them yet but I'm sure they will grow over time.

Land Matters has never published contact information for the claimants. This is a practical matter, not about hiding public records, if we published contact information with the names data harvesters would pound the Land Matters website into oblivion.

The links to the BLM Serial Register pages have always been there on Land Matters for further research but now those links have not only claimant names redacted but previous claimants as well. That makes it a lot tougher to track down the claim location records from the County. Most County Recorder's are going to need a name and a date at least to find the location notice you want to view.

 

[Clay Diggins]

53 minutes ago, GeoBill said:

And then if you know a claimant name you can still search and find all claims ever registered under that name. Run a Customer Info Report using MASSIE and you'll still see practically every claim in the history of the GPAA. Like Clay pointed out, using Land Matters in conjunction with the crippled BLM still gives you almost all the info you'd need.

Cheers

Bill

You can do the same search on Land Matters maps and get a report with the claimant names included.

Try out the Binocular search tool - you can search by any of the basic claim information including filtering out by location dates, assessment dates, claim names, claimants etc. You can zoom to any particular claim in the information returned by clicking on the little magnifying glass to the left of the claim name.