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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Clarke County, Alabama

Clarke County, Alabama has 101 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1971–1986. MSHA's register carries 36 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Clarke 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)
101
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
36
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1971–1986 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
    4 4.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    97 96.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned36 on register
  1. Baton Rouge Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Triangle Aggregates Inc. · MSHA ID 0103330
    Abandoned
  2. BRADFORD GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bradford Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0102642
    Abandoned
  3. Brown Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · East Clarke County Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102752
    Abandoned
  4. Clarke Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & B Ready Mix Inc · MSHA ID 0102796
    Abandoned
  5. Finch Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Industrial Coatings Inc · MSHA ID 0102091
    Abandoned
  6. Griffin Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southwest Alabama Const., LLC · MSHA ID 0103313
    Abandoned
  7. Grove Hill Crusher
    Facility metal/non-metal · Southwest Al Construction Inc · MSHA ID 0103007
    Abandoned
  8. Gulf #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gulf Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0103035
    Abandoned
  9. HARRELL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bradford Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0103139
    Abandoned
  10. Henson Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Henson Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102941
    Abandoned
  11. HICKS PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · C & D Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0103094
    Abandoned
  12. J E Bradford Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bradford Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0102751
    Abandoned
  13. JACKSON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · J O Griffin Contracting Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101695
    Abandoned
  14. Jackson Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Glenn Bradford Gravel Co · MSHA ID 0103329
    Abandoned
  15. Jackson Pit No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brunson Materials & Ready Mix · MSHA ID 0102199
    Abandoned
  16. Kirkland Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · K & S Dozier Service, Inc. · MSHA ID 0103408
    Abandoned
  17. OVERTON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fuller Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0103202
    Abandoned
  18. Parker Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · L G M Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 0100538
    Abandoned
  19. Parker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L G M Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 0102179
    Abandoned
  20. Paul Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Butts & Billingsley Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102100
    Abandoned
  21. Paul Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fuller Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0103203
    Abandoned
  22. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · J M D Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102696
    Abandoned
  23. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Rock and Aggregates, LLC · MSHA ID 0103541
    Abandoned
  24. PIT JACKSON
    Facility metal/non-metal · Hosea O Weaver & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 0102936
    Abandoned
  25. Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brunson Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102099
    Abandoned
  26. Pit No 1 Or Hamilton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L G M Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 0102141
    Abandoned
  27. Pit No 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brunson Materials & Ready Mix · MSHA ID 0102283
    Abandoned
  28. Pit No 4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Brunson Materials & Ready Mix · MSHA ID 0102340
    Abandoned
  29. Plant 3
    Facility metal/non-metal · Hosea O Weaver & Sons, Inc · MSHA ID 0103171
    Abandoned
  30. POPE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fuller Gravel Co Inc · MSHA ID 0103103
    Abandoned
  31. POWELL-1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bradford Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0102834
    Abandoned
  32. Pritchett Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alabama Aggregates · MSHA ID 0103553
    Abandoned
  33. Suggsville Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bedco Lime Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102053
    Abandoned
  34. Tarleton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C&C Aggregate LLC · MSHA ID 0103567
    Abandoned
  35. Tillman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alabama Aggregates · MSHA ID 0103563
    Abandoned
  36. Wiggins Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bradford Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0102750
    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 55
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 17
Clay Pit 10
Sand Pit 6
Sand and Gravel Pit 6
Disturbed Surface 4
Quarry 2
Gravel Pit 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.