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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Escambia County, Alabama

Escambia County, Alabama has 216 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1960–1987, including 6 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). MSHA's register carries 43 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Escambia 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)
216
Mine openings
6
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
43
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits18 quadrangle maps, published 1960–1987 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    6 2.8%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    21 9.7%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    185 85.6%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 0.9%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    2 0.9%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned43 on register
  1. Alabama Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Sand & Gravel Co · MSHA ID 0103383
    Abandoned
  2. Alabama Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · South Alabama Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0102884
    Abandoned
  3. APPLETON - PIT #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sand & Gravel Materials Llc · MSHA ID 0103088
    Abandoned
  4. ASC MARKETING, INC, WARD PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Asc Marketing Inc · MSHA ID 0103120
    Abandoned
  5. ATMORE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · R D Eady Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0103161
    Abandoned
  6. Atmore Sand and Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LP · MSHA ID 0102529
    Abandoned
  7. Bragan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Century Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102256
    Abandoned
  8. Brewton Mine And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Keego Clay Prod Company Inc · MSHA ID 0100113
    Abandoned
  9. Century Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Century Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102681
    Abandoned
  10. DYKES -1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Solid Rock & Materials · MSHA ID 0103151
    Abandoned
  11. Eady Sand & Gravel #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eady Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0103239
    Abandoned
  12. ESCAMBIA PITS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fore Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0100689
    Abandoned
  13. Flomaton Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · RLF Baldwin Operations III · MSHA ID 0103429
    Abandoned
  14. Foshee Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Friese Hauling Inc · MSHA ID 0103064
    Abandoned
  15. G&L SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · G&L Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 0103221
    Abandoned
  16. GILMORE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0100719
    Abandoned
  17. Henderson Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Henderson Ready Mix · MSHA ID 0100691
    Abandoned
  18. INTERSTATE #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Interstate Sand & Gravel Llc · MSHA ID 0103142
    Abandoned
  19. Lois Lane Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · WPR Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0103124
    Abandoned
  20. M & M #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Sand & Gravel Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 0103473
    Abandoned
  21. McCullough Pit #5103
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ready Mix USA, LLC · MSHA ID 0103344
    Abandoned
  22. Pace Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pace Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0103379
    Abandoned
  23. Parker 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roy Parker & Sons Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102040
    Abandoned
  24. Pettis Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0101832
    Abandoned
  25. Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southern Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102892
    Abandoned
  26. PIT 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Magnolia Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0103173
    Abandoned
  27. Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clyde'S Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0102712
    Abandoned
  28. Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hosea O Weaver and Sons Inc · MSHA ID 0103269
    Abandoned
  29. Plant 73201
    Surface metal/non-metal · APAC - Southeast Inc · MSHA ID 0103138
    Abandoned
  30. Poarch Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alabama White Rock · MSHA ID 0103090
    Abandoned
  31. Pollard Pit 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Fore Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0103023
    Abandoned
  32. SARDINE NORTH
    Surface metal/non-metal · SOUTH ALABAMA MATERIALS, INC · MSHA ID 0103478
    Abandoned
  33. Sardine North Pit #5102
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ready Mix USA, LLC · MSHA ID 0103350
    Abandoned
  34. Sardine South Pit #5100
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ready Mix USA, LLC · MSHA ID 0103302
    Abandoned
  35. Slay Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Friese Trucking & Materials · MSHA ID 0102597
    Abandoned
  36. Viking Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Viking Industries, LLC · MSHA ID 0103354
    Abandoned
  37. Wallace Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Archer Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102262
    Abandoned
  38. Wallace Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Escambia County Commission · MSHA ID 0103431
    Abandoned
  39. WALLACE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · SOUTH ALABAMA MATERIALS , INC. · MSHA ID 0103402
    Abandoned
  40. Wallace-Pit #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southeastern Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 0103114
    Abandoned
  41. Ward Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & S Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0103048
    Abandoned
  42. WHITE PEBBLE
    Surface metal/non-metal · White Pebbles Inc · MSHA ID 0103133
    Abandoned
  43. WOODALL PIT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Southeastern Sand & Gravel Llc · MSHA ID 0103220
    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 69
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 56
Clay Pit 24
Disturbed Surface 21
Sand Pit 11
Sand and Gravel Pit 8
Gravel Pit 8
Adit 6
Sand Pit 6
Tipple 2
Tailings - Undifferentiated 2
Clay Pit 2
Sand and 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.