Abandoned mines in Franklin County, Arkansas

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   15 9.6%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   29 18.5%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   55 35.0%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   17 10.8%
5. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   41 26.1%

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.

1. 7 C'S #1

   Surface coal · Seven C'S Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301524
   Abandoned and Sealed 1982-05-20
2. Alix

   Surface coal · B & M Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301581
   Abandoned and Sealed 1985-01-15
3. Allen #1

   Surface coal · Duane Temple Venture · MSHA ID 0301525
   Abandoned and Sealed 1983-03-10
4. Arkansas No 1 Strip

   Surface coal · Westco Inc · MSHA ID 0301328
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
5. Arkansas Sand & Gravel

   Surface metal/non-metal · ROCK-IT NATURAL STONE, INC. · MSHA ID 0300509
   Abandoned 2023-04-03
6. BEAVER LAKE CONCRETE INC

   Surface metal/non-metal · Beaver Lake Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 0301749
   Abandoned 1997-01-28
7. Bet No 1 Strip

   Surface coal · Nelsco Inc · MSHA ID 0301368
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
8. Black Bear Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · JCJ Trucking, LLC. · MSHA ID 0302009
   Abandoned 2015-01-26
9. C & M Stone 2

   Surface metal/non-metal · C & M Stone Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 0302052
   Abandoned 2022-04-19
10. C & M Stone Company Cecil Quarry

    Surface metal/non-metal · C & M Stone Company · MSHA ID 0302011
    Abandoned 2023-08-28
11. Cedar Ridge Quarries

    Surface metal/non-metal · Cedar Ridge Quarries · MSHA ID 0301967
    Abandoned 2014-09-03
12. CENTRAL ARK STONE INC

    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Arkansas Stone Inc · MSHA ID 0301771
    Abandoned 2008-08-12
13. Charleston No 1

    Surface coal · Garland Coal & Mining Company · MSHA ID 0300153
    Abandoned 1983-10-12
14. CHRISMAN ROCK QUARRY

    Surface metal/non-metal · Chrisman Ready-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 0301157
    Abandoned 1999-07-01
15. Coal Hill No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Wedco Coal Corp · MSHA ID 0301411
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
16. Franke No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Carter Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301408
    Abandoned 1979-12-19
17. Hokie Okie A-1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Hokie Okie Stone · MSHA ID 0302048
    Abandoned 2016-10-14
18. Hunt Mine No 1

    Surface coal · Sam-Rick Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301528
    Abandoned and Sealed 1983-06-23
19. Interchem No 1

    Surface coal · Woodside Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301598
    Abandoned and Sealed 1986-07-18
20. Kelleam Strip

    Surface coal · Western Continental Of Oklahoma Inc · MSHA ID 0300538
    Abandoned 1979-10-12
21. Kenny No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Triark Inc · MSHA ID 0301142
    Abandoned 1979-10-12
22. Mid-South Quarries Incorporated

    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-South Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 0301612
    Abandoned 1989-11-02
23. Mine #2

    Surface coal · Hanna Resources Inc · MSHA ID 0301246
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-04-23
24. Mine No 1

    Surface coal · N & N Construction Company · MSHA ID 0301533
    Abandoned and Sealed 1982-10-01
25. Mine No 1

    Surface coal · Wayne Hudson Coal Company · MSHA ID 0301562
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-02-04
26. No 1 Surface

    Surface coal · R & S Coal Company · MSHA ID 0301311
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
27. Overland No 1 Mine

    Surface coal · Overland Mining Company · MSHA ID 0300737
    Abandoned 1975-12-15
28. Pine's Stone Co Vesta Division

    Surface metal/non-metal · Pine's Stone Company Inc., Vesta Division · MSHA ID 0301927
    Abandoned 2008-09-22
29. Powers No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · B & D Construction Inc · MSHA ID 0301170
    Abandoned 1977-07-11
30. Roseville Stone

    Surface metal/non-metal · Roseville Flagstone · MSHA ID 0302059
    Abandoned 2017-12-11
31. Seven C'S #1

    Surface coal · Seven C'S Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301534
    Abandoned and Sealed 1984-07-03
32. Slater Stone LLC

    Surface metal/non-metal · Slater Stone LLC · MSHA ID 0302072
    Abandoned 2022-04-19
33. Turkey Run Mine

    Surface coal · Wilco Energy Corp · MSHA ID 0301406
    Abandoned 1979-10-02
34. Vesta #1

    Surface coal · Jack Mc Clure Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301485
    Abandoned and Sealed 1982-10-17
35. Vesta No 1

    Surface coal · W E Hester Arkansas Coal Producer · MSHA ID 0301536
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-05-15
36. Vesta Project No 1

    Surface coal · Franklin Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301604
    Abandoned 1986-03-12
37. White Oak Creek Pit And Plant

    Surface metal/non-metal · Franklin County Road Department · MSHA ID 0301281
    Abandoned 1980-08-08

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Sebastian County 252
• Calhoun County 190
• Mississippi County 184
• Clay County 168
• Pulaski County 143
• Grant County 142
• Saline County 128
• Logan County 125
• Howard County 118
• Lafayette County 118
• Hot Spring County 117
• Johnson County 115

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.