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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Barbour County, Alabama

Barbour County, Alabama has 47 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1968–1981. MSHA's register carries 18 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Barbour 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)
47
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
18
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits7 quadrangle maps, published 1968–1981 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
    31 66.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    16 34.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned18 on register
  1. Allen Walker
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arcilla Mining & Land Company, LLC · MSHA ID 0103498
    Abandoned
  2. Baker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eufaula Concrete Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102571
    Abandoned
  3. Barbour County Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · W M Bledsoe & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 0100666
    Abandoned
  4. Barbour County Mines
    Surface metal/non-metal · Didier-Taylor Refractories Corp · MSHA ID 0100562
    Abandoned
  5. Barbour County Mines
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harbison-Walker Refractories Company · MSHA ID 0100959
    Abandoned
  6. Barbour County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B W Projects Inc · MSHA ID 0102214
    Abandoned
  7. Barbour County Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hastings Mining Corp · MSHA ID 0102295
    Abandoned
  8. C.H. PIT NO. 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wilson Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102902
    Abandoned
  9. EPCO PITS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eufaula Pulpwood Company Inc · MSHA ID 0103075
    Abandoned
  10. Eufaula Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · A P Green Refractories Inc · MSHA ID 0100665
    Abandoned
  11. Eufaula Mine And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Kenzie Construction Company · MSHA ID 0100602
    Abandoned
  12. Eufaula Mineral Mines
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bledsoe Mining Co. Inc · MSHA ID 0103574
    Abandoned
  13. Eufaula Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Harbison-Walker Refractories Company · MSHA ID 0100770
    Abandoned
  14. Grier Pit / Wilson-2 Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wilson Mining Company Inc. · MSHA ID 0103469
    Abandoned
  15. Spurlock
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eufaula Pulpwood Company Inc · MSHA ID 0103425
    Abandoned
  16. Universal Understanding
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cumbie Inc. · MSHA ID 0103424
    Abandoned
  17. Vickers
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cumbie Inc. · MSHA ID 0103509
    Abandoned
  18. Wilson-Snead Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Didier-Taylor Refractories Corp · MSHA ID 0100807
    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
Strip Mine 28
Quarry 12
Disturbed Surface 3
Gravel Pit 3
Quarry 1
Other counties in AlabamaAll counties →
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.