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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Montgomery County, Alabama

Montgomery County, Alabama has 144 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1957–1987. MSHA's register carries 42 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Montgomery 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)
144
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
42
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits14 quadrangle maps, published 1957–1987 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
    15 10.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    126 87.5%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    3 2.1%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned42 on register
  1. Anderson Road Materials LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Anderson Road Materials LLC · MSHA ID 0103181
    Abandoned
  2. Area Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Little River Materials · MSHA ID 0103557
    Abandoned
  3. Browder Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jenkins Brick Company · MSHA ID 0100110
    Abandoned
  4. Brown Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red Mountain Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 0103513
    Abandoned
  5. Bulk Materials Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bulk Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0102008
    Abandoned
  6. Chapman Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hickory Bend Farms Inc · MSHA ID 0102209
    Abandoned
  7. Cherry Hill
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & S Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0102661
    Abandoned
  8. Circle C Farms Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · O'Dell Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0103367
    Abandoned
  9. Coosada Ferry Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & S Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0102042
    Abandoned
  10. Dearman Mining And Dredging
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dearman Mining & Dredging · MSHA ID 0102009
    Abandoned
  11. Dixie Sand and Gravel LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dixie Sand and Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 0102948
    Abandoned
  12. Dozier Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Foley Materials Company · MSHA ID 0103192
    Abandoned
  13. Dozier Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alpine Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102758
    Abandoned
  14. Dredge Shearwater
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dravo Basic Materials Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101090
    Abandoned
  15. Excelsior Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jenkins Brick Company · MSHA ID 0103284
    Abandoned
  16. Froggy Bottom Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Keith Williams Contractor Incorpora · MSHA ID 0101714
    Abandoned
  17. Greer Sand And Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Greer Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0102722
    Abandoned
  18. HUNTER STATION DIVISION
    Surface metal/non-metal · Gentry Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0100590
    Abandoned
  19. LINE CREEK PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac Alabama Inc · MSHA ID 0103046
    Abandoned
  20. Maddox Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jenkins Brick Company · MSHA ID 0100841
    Abandoned
  21. MCLEMORE PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · J M Jordan Mining Company · MSHA ID 0102646
    Abandoned
  22. Mitylene Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital City Asphalt Company Inc · MSHA ID 0101790
    Abandoned
  23. Montgomery Asphalt Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capital City Asphalt Company Inc · MSHA ID 0102547
    Abandoned
  24. MONTGOMERY CRUSHER
    Surface metal/non-metal · Couch Construction L P · MSHA ID 0102793
    Abandoned
  25. Montgomery Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · North Montgomery Materials LLC · MSHA ID 0103132
    Abandoned
  26. Montgomery Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 0100575
    Abandoned
  27. MT. MEIGS S&G
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 0100676
    Abandoned
  28. No. Montgomery Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Jenkins Brick Company · MSHA ID 0103286
    Abandoned
  29. Old Alabama Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hunter Station-Russell Inc · MSHA ID 0101104
    Abandoned
  30. Oliver Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · C T Thackston Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0100580
    Abandoned
  31. Pinkston
    Surface metal/non-metal · R & S Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0102677
    Abandoned
  32. Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Greer Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0102938
    Abandoned
  33. Pit #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shaver Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0102975
    Abandoned
  34. Red Bluff-Waugh Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red Bluff Sand & Gravel LLC · MSHA ID 0103099
    Abandoned
  35. Riverside Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Riverside Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0102247
    Abandoned
  36. SHAVER SAND AND GRAVEL PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Shaver Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0102747
    Abandoned
  37. Shine Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & S Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0102314
    Abandoned
  38. Terminal #1
    Facility metal/non-metal · Superior Inland Terminal, LLC · MSHA ID 0103549
    Abandoned
  39. Tocwah Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · APAC AL INC. - COUCH DIV · MSHA ID 0102928
    Abandoned
  40. Wares Ferry Road Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Alabama Asphalt Contractors Inc · MSHA ID 0102007
    Abandoned
  41. Waugh Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Capitol Materials LLC · MSHA ID 0103098
    Abandoned
  42. Waugh Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials · MSHA ID 0100714
    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 Pit 52
Strip Mine 9
Clay Pit 7
Disturbed Surface - Pit 4
Clay Pit 4
Sand Pit 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Tailings - Undifferentiated 2
Sand Pit 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Mine Dump 1
Disturbed Surface 1
Other counties in AlabamaAll counties →
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.