BLM Colorado Oil and Gas Lease Sale Parcels for Q3 2026

Polygon geometry and linked attribute data for the Bureau of Land Management's quarterly oil and gas lease sale parcels in Colorado. The mapped layer was generated using legal land descriptions and the Geographic Coordinate Data Base survey grid. Data is consolidated from field office inputs and was last updated on March 25, 2026.

Use Cases

• Map potential oil and gas development areas based on lease parcel polygons.
• Analyze land management and administrative boundaries for energy planning.
• Validate legal land descriptions against mapped geospatial data for regulatory compliance.

Strengths

• Data is derived from official legal land descriptions and the Geographic Coordinate Data Base (GCDB).
• Available in multiple geospatial formats including GDB, GEOJSON, KML, and via a REST API.
• Published under a public domain (us-pd) license with no usage restrictions.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management

Collection Method

Consolidated from field office inputs, generated from legal land descriptions and the GCDB survey grid.

Time Range

Q3 (September) 2026 sale period.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-25 12:33:36.243418; freshness should be verified.

Geography

State of Colorado, USA.