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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Madison County, Illinois

Madison County, Illinois has 64 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1927–1994, including 5 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 6 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 81 problems in the county, 8 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 7 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Madison 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)
64
Mine openings
5
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
8
MSHA mines marked abandoned
7
6 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1927–1994 81 OSMRE problems, 73 reclaimed 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mine openings
    shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
    30 20.7%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    31 21.4%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    14 9.7%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    26 17.9%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    6 4.1%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    38 26.2%
Named features on the maps6 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Ardent Mine Open Pit Mine
Black Diamond Coal Mine Coal Mine
Klondike Mine Open Pit Mine
Noeth Coal Mine Coal Mine
Sunset Coal Mine Coal Mine
Sunset Coal Mine Mine Shaft

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.

OSMRE abandoned mine land problems81 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Bonnie Davis Sag P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Comfort Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Culp Lane Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Culp Lane Shaft P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
De Camp C.c. P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
De Camp C.c. P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
De Camp C.c. P3 Other Reclamation Completed
De Camp C.c. P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Deluca Sag P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Dorris School Sag #2 P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Edwardsville Coal Company P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Pending
Emer. Weiss Sag Subsidenceidence P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Emergency-home Trade Main Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Emergency-james Pit Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Glen Carbon C.c. P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Glen Carbon C.c. P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Graiff Elementary P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Graiff Elementary P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Idot Il 159 And 160 Sag P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Il - Madison - Fea P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Illinois Power P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Illinois Power P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Illinois Power P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Interstate Coal & Mng P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Interstate Coal & Mng P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Interstate Coal & Mng P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Klondike Mine P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Kulp Pit P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #1 P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #1 P3 Slurry Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #2 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #2 P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #2 P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #2 P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #2 P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #2 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Lumaghi C.c. #3 P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #3 P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #4 P1 Portals Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #4 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #4 P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #4 P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #4 P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Lumaghi C.c. #4 P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Madison C.c. #2 P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Completed
Madison C.c. #2 P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Madison C.c. #2 P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Madison C.c. #2 P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Madison County Thermal Mine P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Maryville Manor Sag P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Meierwood Sag P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Morningside Drive Sag Subsidence 20 P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Moss Pit Subsidence 2019 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Mt. Olive & Livingston 1 P2 Clogged Stream Lands Reclamation Completed
Mt. Olive & Livingston 1 P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Mt. Olive & Livingston 1 P2 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Mt. Olive & Livingston 1 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Mt. Olive & Livingston 1 P3 Gobs In Reclamation
Mt. Olive & Livingston 1 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Mt. Olive & Staunton No.1 P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Completed
Mt. Olive & Staunton No.1 P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Mt. Olive & Staunton No.1 P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Mt. Olive And Staunton 2 P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Mt. Olive And Staunton 2 P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Mt. Olive And Staunton 2 P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Mt. Olive And Staunton 2 P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Mt. Olive And Staunton 2 P3 Slurry Reclamation Completed
Mt. Olive And Staunton 2 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
O'Farrell St. Sag P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Prairietown Coal Mine P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ritter Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Sugar Loaf C.c. P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Truck Trade C.c. P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Truck Trade C.c. P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Truck Trade C.c. P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Wonderly Mine P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Worden No.1 P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Worden No.1 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Worden No.11 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Worden No.12 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Young Shaft P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed

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.

MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned7 on register
  1. Alby Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · GP Material, Inc. · MSHA ID 1100182
    Abandoned
  2. City Plant And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Sand Inc · MSHA ID 1101202
    Abandoned
  3. Dredge Traveler
    Surface metal/non-metal · Norbroco Inc · MSHA ID 1101185
    Abandoned
  4. Kamadulski Sand Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Kamadulski Excavating & Grading · MSHA ID 1102858
    Abandoned
  5. New Douglas
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mike A. Maedge Trucking Inc. · MSHA ID 1100491
    Abandoned
  6. Quality Sand Incorporated #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Sand Inc · MSHA ID 1101703
    Abandoned
  7. Richards Brick Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Richards Brick Company · MSHA ID 1101829
    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
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 16
P2 Vertical Openings 12
P1 Vertical Openings 12
P1 Subsidence 12
P3 Gobs 10
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 8
Mine Dump 8
Disturbed Surface 7
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 6
P3 Other 5
Mine Shaft 5
P3 Water Problems 4
Coal Mine 4
P3 Equipment Facility 4
Slag Pile 4
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 3
P2 Clogged Streams 3
Quarry 3
P3 Slurry 2
P3 Mine Opening 2
Open Pit Mine 2
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 2
Mine Dump 2
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 2
P2 Surface Burning 1
Sand Pit 1
P2 Subsidence 1
P3 Pits 1
Clay Pit 1
P1 Portals 1
Gravel Pit 1
Other counties in IllinoisAll counties →
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.