Abandoned mines in Jackson County, Illinois

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   42 24.7%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   30 17.6%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   3 1.8%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   34 20.0%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   4 2.4%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   57 33.5%

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. Burning Star #5

   Surface coal · Consolidation Coal Company · MSHA ID 1102338
   Abandoned 1994-04-13
2. Burning Starr #1

   Facility coal · Silvercreek Construction Company · MSHA ID 1102791
   Abandoned 1996-03-04
3. Carbondale No 1 Strip

   Surface coal · Southern Illinois Mineral Corp · MSHA ID 1100564
   Abandoned 1979-10-01
4. Central Mining #1

   Surface coal · Central Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102883
   Abandoned 1990-03-28
5. Co-Rec Inc

   Facility coal · Co-Rec Inc · MSHA ID 1102804
   Abandoned 1990-03-26
6. Cora Terminal

   Facility coal · Watco Trans Loading LLC · MSHA ID 1103140
   Abandoned 2018-08-07
7. Elkville No.1 Mine

   Surface coal · S Coal Company · MSHA ID 1103121
   Abandoned 2011-04-01
8. Illinois Quarry Company

   Surface metal/non-metal · Illinois Quarry Company · MSHA ID 1100079
   Abandoned 1980-08-18
9. KINKAID UNDERGROUND

   Underground metal/non-metal · Kinkaid Stone Company · MSHA ID 1103018
   Abandoned 2002-03-06
10. Lawder Dredge & Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · Lawder Sand Company · MSHA ID 1101145
    Abandoned 1978-10-17
11. Midland Energy Mine No 1

    Facility coal · Midland Energy Producers Inc · MSHA ID 1102788
    Abandoned 1984-11-06
12. Old Elk Mine

    Surface coal · Bittle Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1101828
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
13. Oraville #2 Strip

    Surface coal · Southern Illinois Mineral Corp · MSHA ID 1102393
    Abandoned 1977-11-14
14. Razorback

    Surface coal · Illini Energy Resources Llc · MSHA ID 1103002
    Abandoned 2002-08-23
15. Razorback I Auger

    Surface coal · Black Hawk Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1103066
    Abandoned 2000-08-15
16. Royal Falcon Mine

    Underground coal · Knight Hawk Coal, LLC · MSHA ID 1103162
    Abandoned and Sealed 2023-08-24
17. Sato No 5

    Surface coal · Southern Illinois Mineral Corp · MSHA ID 1102601
    Abandoned 1980-02-11
18. Vergennes Mine No 4

    Surface coal · Southern Illinois Mineral Corp · MSHA ID 1102564
    Abandoned 1977-06-30

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

• Will County 220
• LaSalle County 192
• McHenry County 191
• Winnebago County 187
• Kane County 184
• St. Clair County 136
• Hardin County 136
• Fulton County 131
• Stephenson County 127
• Williamson County 124
• Peoria County 122
• Cook 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.