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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Marshall County, Alabama

Marshall County, Alabama has 56 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1936–1986. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 5 problems in the county, 3 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 17 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Marshall 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)
56
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
3
MSHA mines marked abandoned
17
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits12 quadrangle maps, published 1936–1986 5 OSMRE problems, 2 reclaimed 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
    38 62.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    10 16.4%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    9 14.8%
  4. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    4 6.6%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems5 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
New Branch P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
New Branch P2 Hazardous Water Bodies Reclamation Completed
New Branch P3 High Wall Reclamation Pending
New Branch P3 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
New Branch P3 Spoil Area In Reclamation

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned17 on register
  1. ATMORE MATERIALS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hot Mix Transport Inc · MSHA ID 0103060
    Abandoned
  2. Boaz Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Oneonta Stone Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 0103268
    Abandoned
  3. Center Point Pit
    Surface coal · Yancey & Yancey Inc · MSHA ID 0102430
    Abandoned
  4. Clayton No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Buckeye Coal Company · MSHA ID 0101685
    Abandoned
  5. Douglas
    Surface coal · L W L Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102440
    Abandoned
  6. East Texas #6
    Surface coal · East Texas Energy Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102470
    Abandoned
  7. GENERAL SHALE PITS
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Shale Products Corp · MSHA ID 0100141
    Abandoned
  8. Grant Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vulcan Construction Materials, LP · MSHA ID 0103318
    Abandoned
  9. Jenkins Strip
    Surface coal · Energy Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 0101782
    Abandoned
  10. Kennamer Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alpine Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0100541
    Abandoned
  11. M E No 8
    Surface coal · Mineral Extractors Inc · MSHA ID 0102193
    Abandoned
  12. Martling Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kim Bearden · MSHA ID 0103418
    Abandoned
  13. Mt Hebron Mine
    Surface coal · Dixie Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 0102346
    Abandoned
  14. Nixon Chapel
    Surface coal · Alaco Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102116
    Abandoned
  15. No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Thomas Duckett Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101945
    Abandoned
  16. Sand Mountain Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kerr's Redi Mix Inc · MSHA ID 0103238
    Abandoned
  17. Sand Plant #131
    Surface metal/non-metal · APAC-Southeast Inc Alabama Division · MSHA ID 0102959
    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
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 23
Disturbed Surface 10
Quarry 9
Settling Pond 8
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 1
Strip Mine 1
P3 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
P3 High Wall 1
Quarry 1
P3 Spoil Area 1
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 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.