Abandoned mines in Cullman County, Alabama

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   10 5.8%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   56 32.6%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   4 2.3%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   34 19.8%
5. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   67 39.0%
6. Other

   symbols outside the classes above
   1 0.6%

Problem types carry OSMRE's priority prefix: P1 and P2 are threats to health, safety and property, P3 is environmental. A problem area is a cluster of problems reclaimed as one project; several rows can share one location.

1. Abbott No 1

   Surface coal · Trimble Contracting Company · MSHA ID 0102090
   Abandoned 1980-05-01
2. Arkadelphia

   Surface coal · Southern Mineral Resources · MSHA ID 0100163
   Abandoned 2006-02-03
3. Arkadelphia Pit 66

   Surface coal · Drummond Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 0101091
   Abandoned 1985-03-07
4. Arkadelphia Pit No 66 Strip

   Surface coal · Taylor Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0100743
   Abandoned 1974-08-22
5. Arkadelphia Strip

   Surface coal · Bishop Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0100799
   Abandoned 1972-07-27
6. Arkadelphia Strip

   Surface coal · Arkadelphia Coal Company · MSHA ID 0100813
   Abandoned 1974-08-08
7. Brushy Pond No 1

   Surface coal · Southeastern Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102132
   Abandoned 1980-03-19
8. Brushy Pond Pit #71

   Surface coal · Taylor Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101058
   Abandoned 1974-05-21
9. Brushy Pond Pit No 1

   Surface coal · Whetstone Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101787
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
10. Cold Springs

    Surface coal · Kinlock Coals Inc · MSHA ID 0102076
    Abandoned 1985-06-12
11. Cold Springs Mine

    Surface coal · Clay & Shale Shippers Inc · MSHA ID 0101850
    Abandoned 1981-01-06
12. Cold Springs West Mine

    Surface coal · Evergreen Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 0103361
    Abandoned 2026-05-21
13. Crane Hill

    Surface coal · J R C Corp Inc · MSHA ID 0102467
    Abandoned 1982-04-19
14. Crane Hill

    Surface coal · Myers Coal Company · MSHA ID 0102836
    Abandoned 2001-03-23
15. Crane Hill Strip

    Surface coal · Bishop Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101117
    Abandoned 1974-08-08
16. Crooked Creek Mine

    Surface coal · Energy Supply Inc · MSHA ID 0102555
    Abandoned 1985-09-30
17. Cullman County No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Patton Mining & Resources Company · MSHA ID 0101450
    Abandoned 1978-05-30
18. Cullman Pit No 1

    Surface coal · Pawnee Mining & Coal Sales Inc · MSHA ID 0101655
    Abandoned 1977-09-19
19. Cullman Pit No 1

    Surface coal · May & Associates · MSHA ID 0102253
    Abandoned 1982-05-01
20. Cullman Strip

    Surface coal · Taylor Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101045
    Abandoned 1981-01-06
21. D & W Mine #1

    Surface coal · Black Warrior Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 0103062
    Abandoned 1997-06-16
22. Drummond Rock Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · Wiregrass Construction Company, Inc. · MSHA ID 0103126
    Abandoned 2026-04-07
23. Grove Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Grove Hauling · MSHA ID 0103617
    Abandoned 2025-06-02
24. King Coal Pit #54

    Surface coal · King Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101442
    Abandoned 1976-10-28
25. Lake Pit

    Surface coal · Lakeside Coal Company · MSHA ID 0101135
    Abandoned 1976-05-03
26. Mine #1

    Surface coal · T & B Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 0103097
    Abandoned 2002-03-28
27. Mine #2

    Surface coal · Iron Eagle Land Rehabilitation, LLC · MSHA ID 0103117
    Abandoned 2026-05-21
28. Mt Hope Mine

    Surface coal · Fields Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102465
    Abandoned 1984-06-01
29. Myers Pit

    Surface coal · Myers Coal Company · MSHA ID 0102506
    Abandoned 1983-11-28
30. No 1 Mine

    Surface coal · Bates Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101447
    Abandoned 1976-04-29
31. No 1 Mine

    Surface coal · Bates Coal Co Inc · MSHA ID 0101477
    Abandoned 1978-07-06
32. No 1 Pit

    Surface coal · Ridge Coal Company · MSHA ID 0100862
    Abandoned 1975-09-02
33. No 1 Pit Strip

    Surface coal · Bailey Coal Company · MSHA ID 0101498
    Abandoned 1977-12-05
34. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Buzbee Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101433
    Abandoned 1977-08-08
35. Parker Branch

    Surface coal · Phillips Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102401
    Abandoned 1983-07-01
36. Pillar Mine No 1

    Surface coal · Pillar Coal Inc · MSHA ID 0101536
    Abandoned 1976-10-28
37. Pit No 1

    Surface coal · Double U Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102363
    Abandoned 1985-05-09
38. Pit No 18

    Surface coal · Nickel Plate Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102191
    Abandoned 1981-03-20
39. Pit No 2

    Surface coal · Stouts Mountain Coal Company · MSHA ID 0101860
    Abandoned 1981-01-06
40. Roberts Store Mine #1

    Surface coal · Dorsey Creek LLC · MSHA ID 0103326
    Abandoned 2005-11-21
41. Ryan Creek

    Surface coal · King Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101903
    Abandoned 1986-03-28
42. Stouts Mountain #1

    Surface coal · Howton Coal Co Inc · MSHA ID 0100891
    Abandoned 1974-01-10
43. Stouts Mountain Strip

    Surface coal · Southern States Coal Inc · MSHA ID 0101667
    Abandoned 1977-08-08
44. Strip Pit No 1

    Surface coal · Fields & Cornelius Coal Company · MSHA ID 0101522
    Abandoned 1977-07-21
45. Taylor Pit No 2

    Surface coal · Pawnee Mining & Coal Sales Inc · MSHA ID 0101673
    Abandoned 1977-09-19
46. Trimble Pit Three

    Surface coal · Trimble Coal Company · MSHA ID 0101643
    Abandoned 1983-02-28
47. Wheat-Ardell Mine

    Surface coal · Pine Mountain Energy Inc · MSHA ID 0102935
    Abandoned 1994-08-09
48. WILBURN PIT

    Surface metal/non-metal · AL-Graystone Inc. · MSHA ID 0103186
    Abandoned 2013-12-19
49. Wilburn Prep Plant

    Facility coal · Castens Equipment Services Inc · MSHA ID 0101422
    Abandoned 1994-06-22
50. York No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Fields & Cornelius Coal Company · MSHA ID 0101703
    Abandoned 1978-07-06
51. York-Davis No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Southeastern Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101754
    Abandoned 1979-10-01

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

• Walker County 763
• Jefferson County 653
• Marion County 397
• Tuscaloosa County 229
• Escambia County 216
• Mobile County 191
• Franklin County 174
• Jackson County 162
• Baldwin County 159
• St. Clair County 155
• Blount County 154
• Montgomery County 144

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.