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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Autauga County, Alabama

Autauga County, Alabama has 120 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1957–1987. MSHA's register carries 28 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Autauga County, every OSMRE abandoned mine land problem in the county, and every MSHA-registered mine here with status Abandoned. Named features are listed below; unnamed ones are counted by type. Locations are deliberately not shown: this page says what abandoned workings are in the county, not where to find them. They are dangerous and should not be entered.

Mapped mine features (USGS)
120
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
28
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits17 quadrangle maps, published 1957–1987 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    16 13.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    104 86.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned28 on register
  1. Al Rock Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Al Rock Inc. · MSHA ID 0103569
    Abandoned
  2. Allstate Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wiregrass Construction Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 0103406
    Abandoned
  3. Autaugaville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L. C. S. Unlimited LLC · MSHA ID 0103530
    Abandoned
  4. Bird Field Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Little River Materials · MSHA ID 0103605
    Abandoned
  5. Bockman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · JGB, LLC · MSHA ID 0103501
    Abandoned
  6. Booth
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & S Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0102041
    Abandoned
  7. Booth Sand And Gravel Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Booth Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0102927
    Abandoned
  8. Coastal Asphalt & Construction Incorpora
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coastal Asphalt & Construction Inc · MSHA ID 0102573
    Abandoned
  9. Fremont Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dallas Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0100587
    Abandoned
  10. Holt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elmore Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0103537
    Abandoned
  11. Independence Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gentry Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0103233
    Abandoned
  12. Jones
    Surface metal/non-metal · Al Rock · MSHA ID 0103568
    Abandoned
  13. Marbury Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Little River Materials · MSHA ID 0103603
    Abandoned
  14. Miller Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alabama Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0103461
    Abandoned
  15. Mims Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alabama Aggregate, Inc · MSHA ID 0103316
    Abandoned
  16. MIMS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & S Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0102507
    Abandoned
  17. PETRUNIC PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · L C S Unlimited LLC · MSHA ID 0103572
    Abandoned
  18. Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alabama Sand and Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0103307
    Abandoned
  19. Pit #5
    Surface metal/non-metal · LCS Unlimited LLC · MSHA ID 0103610
    Abandoned
  20. Pit 6
    Surface metal/non-metal · LCS Unlimited LLC · MSHA ID 0103618
    Abandoned
  21. Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · F & M Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102504
    Abandoned
  22. PLANT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · O'Dell Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0103001
    Abandoned
  23. Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · O'Dell Mining Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 0103230
    Abandoned
  24. Plaster Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alabama Aggregate Inc. · MSHA ID 0102757
    Abandoned
  25. Rail Site Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alabama Aggregate, Inc · MSHA ID 0103479
    Abandoned
  26. Red Bluff Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red Bluff Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 0103272
    Abandoned
  27. Rogers Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · GW Materials, LLC · MSHA ID 0103647
    Abandoned
  28. Statesville Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Al Rock Inc · MSHA ID 0103607
    Abandoned

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

By source vocabularythe publishers' own terms
Feature type Features
Gravel Pit 67
Gravel Pit 19
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 9
Clay Pit 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 7
Clay Pit 5
Sand Pit 4
Sand Pit 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
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How to read these numbers

A USGS feature is a symbol on a historical topographic map, there when the map was surveyed; it may since have been sealed, reclaimed, built over or reopened as a working mine, and the map does not say which. An OSMRE row is a problem the abandoned mine land program tracks, not a mine. An MSHA mine is a registered operation whose operator reported abandonment, a record that starts in the 1970s. The three overlap and are never added together. The county is assigned from each feature's coordinates against the Census 2023 county boundaries. The full method is on the national page.

Sources
  1. USGS, Consolidated Prospect- and Mine-Related Features from 7.5- and 15-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Maps of the United States (USMIN)
    597,612 point and area features digitized from about 106,350 historical topographic maps published 1886–2006; public domain (CC0). A feature is a map symbol, not a field-verified site, and the map does not say whether it was still worked.
  2. USGS Fact Sheet 2025–3003, The Abandoned Mine Inventory of the United States
    States that as of 2025 there is no comprehensive national inventory of abandoned mine features, and that the detailed national database now being built will not be published.
  3. OSMRE, Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (e-AMLIS), public Problems layer
    One row per abandoned mine land problem in a problem area, with its type, funding program and reclamation status; mostly coal mined before the 1977 Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act. Coordinates are the problem area's.
  4. MSHA, Mines dataset (Mine Data Retrieval System)
    Every mine registered with MSHA since the 1970s; a mine reads Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed when its operator reported that status. Refreshed weekly.
  5. US Census Bureau, 2023 cartographic county boundaries (1:500,000)
    Each feature's county is assigned by its coordinates against these boundaries, not copied from the source file.
  6. GAO-20-238, Abandoned Hardrock Mines (March 2020)
    Federal agencies had identified at least 140,000 abandoned hardrock mine features on federal land and estimated more than 390,000 more not yet captured in their databases.
  7. Abandoned Hardrock Mine Reclamation (AHMR) Program, US Department of the Interior
    The program the USGS inventory is compiled for. Its appropriations and the 674,000 field-confirmed feature count on this page were provided by the program manager, Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance, and are cited with permission (2026-09-08).
  8. IMCC-NAAMLP Hardrock AML Report
    Page 48 carries the two figures this page leans on: USGS estimates 633,181 of the 725,690 mine features it recorded from historic topographic maps, 87 percent, are hardrock; and state and federal agencies have submitted more than 724,000 AML features to the national database being built, already more than the historic maps hold. Year-by-year AHMR funding is on page 35.