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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Craighead County, Arkansas

Craighead County, Arkansas has 101 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1935–1983. 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 Craighead 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)
101
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
17
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits9 quadrangle maps, published 1935–1983 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
    1 1.0%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    100 99.0%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned17 on register
  1. Bartholamu Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kail Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301404
    Abandoned
  2. CRAIGHEAD COUNTY PITS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Craighead County Highway Department · MSHA ID 0301848
    Abandoned
  3. Easton Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · C L Ray · MSHA ID 0301334
    Abandoned
  4. Edwards Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edwards & Son Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0301456
    Abandoned
  5. Gibson Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Boorhem-Fields Inc · MSHA ID 0301647
    Abandoned
  6. Griffith Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Joey Isbell Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0301474
    Abandoned
  7. Head Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & D Hauling Company · MSHA ID 0300149
    Abandoned
  8. Hedger Aggregates Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hedger Aggregate Inc · MSHA ID 0301722
    Abandoned
  9. Hinson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reynolds & Williams Inc · MSHA ID 0301463
    Abandoned
  10. Jonesboro Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Craighead County Highway Department · MSHA ID 0301158
    Abandoned
  11. Jonesboro Plant 675
    Surface metal/non-metal · RazorRock Materials · MSHA ID 0300566
    Abandoned
  12. Mead Construction - Mead Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mead Construction · MSHA ID 0301467
    Abandoned
  13. Northside Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Northside Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0301287
    Abandoned
  14. Parker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Webb Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0301308
    Abandoned
  15. Valley View Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Willbanks Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0301451
    Abandoned
  16. Wheeler Brick Plt
    Facility metal/non-metal · Wheeler Brick Company Inc · MSHA ID 0300486
    Abandoned
  17. Wineland Pit #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wineland Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 0300770
    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 62
Gravel Pit 27
Borrow Pit 6
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 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.