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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Baldwin County, Alabama

Baldwin County, Alabama has 159 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1941–1985. MSHA's register carries 21 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Baldwin 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)
159
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
21
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits29 quadrangle maps, published 1941–1985 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
    18 11.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    141 88.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned21 on register
  1. Bagley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J G Bagley Co Bagley Pit · MSHA ID 0100771
    Abandoned
  2. Baldwin County Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Dolime Minerals Company · MSHA ID 0102226
    Abandoned
  3. Cooper Materials Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cooper Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0101571
    Abandoned
  4. Corte Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sand & Clay Inc · MSHA ID 0103082
    Abandoned
  5. Fairhope Clay Products Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fairhope Clay Products Inc · MSHA ID 0100100
    Abandoned
  6. Foley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Temco Mining · MSHA ID 0103328
    Abandoned
  7. FREISE #225
    Surface metal/non-metal · Friese Hauling Inc · MSHA ID 0102911
    Abandoned
  8. Jackson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jackson Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0102541
    Abandoned
  9. Lake Mitchell
    Surface metal/non-metal · Terra Del Mar Development, LLC · MSHA ID 0103296
    Abandoned
  10. Litlle River Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gulf Coast Trans Load · MSHA ID 0103613
    Abandoned
  11. LITTLE RIVER PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · GULFCOAST TRANSLOAD OF ALABAMA · MSHA ID 0103602
    Abandoned
  12. P & R Mining 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · P & R LLC · MSHA ID 0103325
    Abandoned
  13. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · W T Walley & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 0102916
    Abandoned
  14. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Strickland Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 0103297
    Abandoned
  15. Poarch Sand & Gravel-Little River Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Poarch Sand & Gravel, L.L.C. · MSHA ID 0103244
    Abandoned
  16. Sterling Materials Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sterling Materials Inc. · MSHA ID 0103382
    Abandoned
  17. Summerdale Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baldwin Co Construction Inc · MSHA ID 0103340
    Abandoned
  18. Weekley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jaco LLC · MSHA ID 0103256
    Abandoned
  19. Weekly Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eady Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0102531
    Abandoned
  20. Weekly Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · P & M Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0102993
    Abandoned
  21. White Gold Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · White Gold Sand, Inc · MSHA ID 0103615
    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
Clay Pit 67
Clay Pit 21
Gravel Pit 15
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 14
Disturbed Surface - Pit 14
Sand Pit 11
Sand Pit 9
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 3
Gravel Pit 3
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 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.