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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Monroe County, Alabama

Monroe County, Alabama has 86 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1967–1986. MSHA's register carries 37 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Monroe 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)
86
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
37
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1967–1986 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
    10 11.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    76 88.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned37 on register
  1. 47 Sand & Gravel, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · 47 Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 0103600
    Abandoned
  2. Baldwin Aggregate Pit 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Baldwin Aggregate · MSHA ID 0103251
    Abandoned
  3. Basic Sand & Gravel, Inc.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Basic Sand & Gravel, Inc. · MSHA ID 0103141
    Abandoned
  4. Blanton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lanier Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0103123
    Abandoned
  5. Bloedel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lanier Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102827
    Abandoned
  6. CASEY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · RANDALL JASON HYATT, INC. · MSHA ID 0103589
    Abandoned
  7. Claiborne Lime Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Claiborne Lime Plant · MSHA ID 0102016
    Abandoned
  8. Cook Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & S Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0103039
    Abandoned
  9. Cooper Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Randall Jason Hyatt, Inc. d/b/a JACO · MSHA ID 0103345
    Abandoned
  10. Crawford Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hyatt Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0102289
    Abandoned
  11. Dees Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomac Trucking & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102516
    Abandoned
  12. EWELL INDUSTRIES INC. DAWSON PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ewell Industries Inc · MSHA ID 0103040
    Abandoned
  13. Excel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · H & H Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0100546
    Abandoned
  14. Excel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · W P R Materials, Inc · MSHA ID 0103348
    Abandoned
  15. Friese (Frisco City)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Friese Materials Corp · MSHA ID 0102826
    Abandoned
  16. Gaillard Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ideal Basic Industries-Cement Division · MSHA ID 0102285
    Abandoned
  17. Garrett Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jaco LLC · MSHA ID 0103252
    Abandoned
  18. GOODWAY
    Surface metal/non-metal · P & M Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0102825
    Abandoned
  19. Goodway Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gulf Coast Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102105
    Abandoned
  20. Goodway Pit
    Facility metal/non-metal · Rock Bottom Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102643
    Abandoned
  21. Hyatt Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · J T Moseley · MSHA ID 0102104
    Abandoned
  22. Jacop Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomac Trucking & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102291
    Abandoned
  23. Johnson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · JACO · MSHA ID 0103291
    Abandoned
  24. King Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · JACO · MSHA ID 0103369
    Abandoned
  25. Mc Millan Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomac Trucking & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102749
    Abandoned
  26. Melton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Thomac Trucking & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102546
    Abandoned
  27. Millsap Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sandco Inc · MSHA ID 0100599
    Abandoned
  28. Monroe Concrete Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monroe Concrete · MSHA ID 0101997
    Abandoned
  29. Monroe Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Monroe Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 0103564
    Abandoned
  30. Odom Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0102522
    Abandoned
  31. Parker No 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roy Parker & Sons Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0102524
    Abandoned
  32. Parker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Poarch Sand & Gravel, L.L.C. · MSHA ID 0103289
    Abandoned
  33. Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Roy Partin Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0102870
    Abandoned
  34. PIT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sand & Gravel Materials Llc · MSHA ID 0103042
    Abandoned
  35. Reed Pit #5101
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reed Sand and Gravel · MSHA ID 0103290
    Abandoned
  36. Rockhead Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rockhead Sand & Gravel, LLC · MSHA ID 0103599
    Abandoned
  37. Sims Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · S & T Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0102987
    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 61
Disturbed Surface 10
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 9
Quarry 4
Clay Pit 1
Sand 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.