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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Hot Spring County, Arkansas

Hot Spring County, Arkansas has 117 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1948–2000. MSHA's register carries 28 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Hot Spring 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)
117
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
28
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits12 quadrangle maps, published 1948–2000 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
    25 21.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    90 76.9%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    2 1.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned28 on register
  1. Arkansas Decorative Stone Bagging
    Facility metal/non-metal · Arkansas Decorative Stone LLC · MSHA ID 0301874
    Abandoned
  2. Beauchamp Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ouachita Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0300404
    Abandoned
  3. Butterfield Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Coleman Quartz Inc · MSHA ID 0301709
    Abandoned
  4. Butterfield Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tim Tidwell Construction Company · MSHA ID 0301543
    Abandoned
  5. Caddo Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Souter Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0300909
    Abandoned
  6. Flatop Mountain Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norton Pike Division Of Norton Comp · MSHA ID 0301283
    Abandoned
  7. GLEN ROSE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group Inc · MSHA ID 0301763
    Abandoned
  8. GLEN ROSE QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Materials · MSHA ID 0301828
    Abandoned
  9. HBME-Jones Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · H.B. Mellott Estate, Inc. · MSHA ID 0301841
    Abandoned
  10. Hedges Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arkansas State Highway Department · MSHA ID 0300913
    Abandoned
  11. Hwy 7 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-State Construction & Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0301387
    Abandoned
  12. J & J SAND & GRAVEL
    Facility metal/non-metal · J & J Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0301735
    Abandoned
  13. Magnet Cove Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · N L Baroid-Div/N L Industries Inc · MSHA ID 0300787
    Abandoned
  14. Malvern Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Malvern Brick & Tile Company · MSHA ID 0300143
    Abandoned
  15. Malvern Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-State Construction & Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0301449
    Abandoned
  16. Malvern Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hobbs Contractor Inc · MSHA ID 0301372
    Abandoned
  17. Malvern Pit & Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Acme Brick Company · MSHA ID 0300134
    Abandoned
  18. Malvern Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mid-State Construction & Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0300035
    Abandoned
  19. Natural Hones Mill
    Facility metal/non-metal · Natural Hones Inc · MSHA ID 0301531
    Abandoned
  20. Ouachita Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ouachita Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301381
    Abandoned
  21. Ouachita Gravel #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ouachita Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301696
    Abandoned
  22. Ovachita Plant No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ouachita Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301476
    Abandoned
  23. Portable Plant Gourdneck
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ouachita Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301781
    Abandoned
  24. Razorstone Rock Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Razorstone Rock Quarry · MSHA ID 0302034
    Abandoned
  25. SAC Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · SAC Sand & Gravel · MSHA ID 0301472
    Abandoned
  26. Steve Hedges Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Steve Hedges Construction Company · MSHA ID 0301382
    Abandoned
  27. Tidwell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Tidwell Construction Company · MSHA ID 0301471
    Abandoned
  28. Wallis Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wallis Quarry · MSHA ID 0301517
    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 56
Clay Pit 12
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 11
Gravel Pit 8
Quarry 7
Strip Mine 5
Open Pit Mine 4
Disturbed Surface 3
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Sand Pit 2
Tailings - Undifferentiated 2
Clay Pit 1
Sand Pit 1
Open Pit Mine 1
Disturbed Surface - 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.