Abandoned mines in Johnson County, Arkansas

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   27 12.2%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   64 28.8%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   29 13.1%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   40 18.0%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   3 1.4%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   59 26.6%

A name is the label printed beside the symbol on the map. "First mapped" is the earliest topographic edition that shows the symbol, which bounds the feature's age from above; it is not the date it was worked. Unnamed features (most prospect pits, adits and shafts carry no label) are in the counts above but not this list.

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. Arkoma Tipple #1

   Facility coal · Arkoma Coal Corp · MSHA ID 0301376
   Abandoned 1980-12-03
2. Black Diamond #1

   Surface coal · Black Diamond Energy Corp · MSHA ID 0301413
   Abandoned 1984-03-08
3. C & M Stone

   Surface metal/non-metal · C & M Stone · MSHA ID 0301902
   Abandoned 2016-08-29
4. Clarksville #1

   Surface metal/non-metal · Choctaw Natural Stone Products, LLC · MSHA ID 0302021
   Abandoned 2013-01-18
5. Clarksville Pit And Plant #2

   Surface metal/non-metal · Ronnie Duffield Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0301469
   Abandoned 1980-12-30
6. Coal Hill No 1

   Surface coal · Arco Energy Inc · MSHA ID 0301507
   Abandoned 1981-05-29
7. Crown Strip Pit

   Surface coal · Crown Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0300272
   Abandoned 1981-03-02
8. Glen No 1 Strip Mine

   Surface coal · Yarbrough Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301114
   Abandoned 1975-07-14
9. H&H #1

   Facility coal · H & H Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301506
   Abandoned 1981-08-03
10. Hays Chapel No 1

    Underground coal · Hurley Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 0300158
    Abandoned 1980-05-08
11. HUNT #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock-it Natural Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 0302049
    Abandoned 2017-08-25
12. Johnson County Portable

    Surface metal/non-metal · Chrisman Ready - Mix, Inc. · MSHA ID 0301862
    Abandoned 2011-10-20
13. King Strip

    Surface coal · Wilco Energy Corp · MSHA ID 0301374
    Abandoned 1980-12-03
14. Lamar #2

    Surface metal/non-metal · Rock-it Natural Stone, Inc. · MSHA ID 0302041
    Abandoned 2018-08-09
15. Lamar #3, & #4

    Surface metal/non-metal · ROCK-IT NATURAL STONE, INC. I · MSHA ID 0302042
    Abandoned 2016-11-16
16. Larson Coal Co Mine #1

    Surface coal · Arkansas Coal Production · MSHA ID 0301568
    Abandoned and Sealed 1984-08-21
17. Little Piney Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Acme Brick Company · MSHA ID 0300138
    Abandoned 2009-03-26
18. Miller Stone

    Surface metal/non-metal · Miller Stone · MSHA ID 0301903
    Abandoned 2012-01-23
19. Mine #1

    Surface coal · R & S Coal Company · MSHA ID 0301384
    Abandoned and Sealed 1985-09-30
20. Mine #1

    Surface coal · Western Reserve Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301522
    Abandoned and Sealed 1984-05-03
21. Mine #2

    Surface coal · R & S Coal Company · MSHA ID 0301650
    Abandoned 2002-07-15
22. Mine No 3

    Surface coal · Russ & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 0301535
    Abandoned 2000-08-17
23. Minnow Creek Strip

    Surface coal · Wilco Energy Corp · MSHA ID 0301393
    Abandoned 1978-04-06
24. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Hice Coal Comapny Inc · MSHA ID 0300940
    Abandoned 1978-04-27
25. Ozark

    Surface coal · Peabody Coal Company · MSHA ID 0300286
    Abandoned and Sealed 1983-10-04
26. Philpot Strip

    Surface coal · Garland Coal & Mining Company · MSHA ID 0300273
    Abandoned 1974-12-16
27. Philpott #1

    Surface coal · Ark Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301403
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
28. Portable Crusher

    Surface metal/non-metal · Chrisman Ready-Mix Inc · MSHA ID 0301761
    Abandoned 2014-07-18
29. Portable Crusher #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Johnson County Road Department · MSHA ID 0301278
    Abandoned 1994-12-01
30. Sam'S Coal Co #1

    Surface coal · Sam'S Coal Company · MSHA ID 0301555
    Abandoned and Sealed 1983-08-08
31. Seven C'S No 2

    Surface coal · Seven C'S Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301642
    Abandoned and Sealed 1988-04-29
32. Slate Hill Strip

    Surface coal · Yarbrough Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 0301166
    Abandoned 1977-04-12
33. Spadra Mine

    Surface coal · Miracle Coal Company · MSHA ID 0301282
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
34. Sun Belt Mine #1

    Surface coal · Sun Belt Coal Company · MSHA ID 0301553
    Abandoned 1985-09-16
35. Titan Lamar

    Surface coal · Titan Mining Ltd · MSHA ID 0301163
    Abandoned 1980-12-03

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
• Independence County 114

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.