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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Escambia County, Florida

Escambia County, Florida has 245 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1970–1994. MSHA's register carries 25 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Escambia 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)
245
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
25
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits16 quadrangle maps, published 1970–1994 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
    63 25.7%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    182 74.3%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned25 on register
  1. Barth Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Couch Ready Mix USA · MSHA ID 0801268
    Abandoned
  2. BELLVIEW
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mc Dirt Industries Inc · MSHA ID 0801275
    Abandoned
  3. Bellview Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Clay & Shell Company Inc · MSHA ID 0800935
    Abandoned
  4. Blossom Trail Sandpit
    Surface metal/non-metal · BLOSSOM TRAIL SANDPIT LLC · MSHA ID 0801046
    Abandoned
  5. Bluff Springs
    Surface metal/non-metal · Escambia Materials Inc · MSHA ID 0800282
    Abandoned
  6. Century Mines
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Sand & Gravel Co · MSHA ID 0800267
    Abandoned
  7. Century Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Arnold Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0800938
    Abandoned
  8. CENTURY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pace Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0801226
    Abandoned
  9. CENTURY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sand and Dirt, Inc. · MSHA ID 0801371
    Abandoned
  10. Clark Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · RLF Baldwin Operations II LLC · MSHA ID 0801288
    Abandoned
  11. Devine Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Sand & Dirt, INC · MSHA ID 0801428
    Abandoned
  12. Escambia County Pits
    Surface metal/non-metal · Red'S Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0800888
    Abandoned
  13. ESCOMBIA PITS
    Surface metal/non-metal · Edward M Chadbourne Inc · MSHA ID 0800462
    Abandoned
  14. GFD Sandpit inc. (Greens mine)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Blossom Trail Sandpit LLC · MSHA ID 0801430
    Abandoned
  15. Johnson Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Century Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0800957
    Abandoned
  16. Little Escambia Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pace Sand & Gravel Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 0801319
    Abandoned
  17. Mixon Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · B & M Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0800911
    Abandoned
  18. Pensacola Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Site Construction Developers Inc · MSHA ID 0800292
    Abandoned
  19. PENSACOLA MINE AND PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark Site Contractors, Inc. · MSHA ID 0800269
    Abandoned
  20. PINEBARREN PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Campbell Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 0801240
    Abandoned
  21. Pioneer Sand Co Saufley Field Mine
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pioneer Sand Company · MSHA ID 0800302
    Abandoned
  22. PIT 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark Site Contractors, Inc. · MSHA ID 0801141
    Abandoned
  23. PIT 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Clark Site Contractors, Inc. · MSHA ID 0801312
    Abandoned
  24. SIMMON'S PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Pace Sand & Gravel Company Inc · MSHA ID 0801191
    Abandoned
  25. Stateline Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Stateline Sand & Gravel LLC. · MSHA ID 0801432
    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
Clay Pit 83
Disturbed Surface 63
Clay Pit 42
Sand Pit 22
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 17
Sand Pit 12
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 3
Gravel Pit 2
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.