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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Tazewell County, Illinois

Tazewell County, Illinois has 102 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1949–1996. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 21 problems in the county, 10 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 24 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Tazewell 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)
102
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
10
MSHA mines marked abandoned
24
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1949–1996 21 OSMRE problems, 11 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
    9 7.3%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    3 2.4%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    95 77.2%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    7 5.7%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    3 2.4%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    6 4.9%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems21 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
B & B Mine P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Crescent C.c. No.2 Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Crescent C.c. No.2 Shaft P2 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive Reclamation Pending
Crescent Coal Company No.2 P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Crescent Coal Company No.2 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Crescent Coal Company No.2 P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
E. Camp St Opening P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Lake Erie Mining P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Lake Erie Mining P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Pending
Lake Erie Mining P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
Lake Erie Mining P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending
Lakeside Coal Co P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Lakeside Coal Co P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Lakeside Coal Co P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Liberty Mine P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Pending
Liberty Mine P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Manhattan Coal Company P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Manhattan Coal Company P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Route 98 Mine Openings P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Tazewell Coal Company P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Pending
Tazewell Coal Company P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Pending

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 Abandoned24 on register
  1. Adwell Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R A Cullinan & Son Inc · MSHA ID 1102649
    Abandoned
  2. Carri Scharf Mtrals Farmdale Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carri Scharf Materials, Co. · MSHA ID 1103109
    Abandoned
  3. Clay Pit #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Peoria Brick & Tile Company · MSHA ID 1100489
    Abandoned
  4. Clouse Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quarter Construction Company · MSHA ID 1101810
    Abandoned
  5. Cornick Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R A Cullinan & Son Inc · MSHA ID 1101154
    Abandoned
  6. Crabb Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R A Cullinan & Son Inc · MSHA ID 1101745
    Abandoned
  7. Farmdale
    Surface metal/non-metal · R.A. Cullinan & Son a divison of UCM · MSHA ID 1102786
    Abandoned
  8. FARMDALE SAND & GRAVEL LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Farmdale Sand & Gravel Llc · MSHA ID 1102196
    Abandoned
  9. Hurley Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R A Cullinan & Son Inc · MSHA ID 1102650
    Abandoned
  10. Mackinaw North Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R A Cullinan & Son Inc · MSHA ID 1102792
    Abandoned
  11. Morris Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morris Pit · MSHA ID 1102606
    Abandoned
  12. Moushon Const Co Inc Pit 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moushon Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102702
    Abandoned
  13. Moushon Construction Company Incorporate
    Surface metal/non-metal · Moushon Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1102195
    Abandoned
  14. Pekin Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Material Service Corp · MSHA ID 1101161
    Abandoned
  15. Percy Ragar Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R A Cullinan & Son Inc · MSHA ID 1102698
    Abandoned
  16. PORTABLE #2311
    Surface metal/non-metal · R. A. Cullinan & Son, Inc. · MSHA ID 1102376
    Abandoned
  17. PORTABLE 2145
    Surface metal/non-metal · R. A. Cullinan & Son, Inc. · MSHA ID 1102941
    Abandoned
  18. PORTADREDGE #2501
    Surface metal/non-metal · ROWE CONST A DIV OF UCM, INC. · MSHA ID 1102697
    Abandoned
  19. Quikrete Peoria
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quikrete Materials LLC · MSHA ID 1102940
    Abandoned
  20. Riverside
    Surface metal/non-metal · R.A. Cullinan & Son a divison of UCM · MSHA ID 1101748
    Abandoned
  21. Rokey Acres Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · R A Cullinan & Son Inc · MSHA ID 1102724
    Abandoned
  22. Rokey Acres Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · R A Cullinan & Son Inc · MSHA ID 1102735
    Abandoned
  23. Staker Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Miller Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1103288
    Abandoned
  24. Woods Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 1102030
    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 47
Gravel Pit 29
P2 Vertical Openings 6
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 6
Sand Pit 4
P1 Vertical Openings 3
P3 Mine Opening 3
Settling Pond 3
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 3
Disturbed Surface - Pit 2
Clay Pit 2
P3 Equipment Facility 2
P3 Gobs 2
Sand and Gravel Pit 2
Sand Pit 2
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 1
Sand and Gravel Pit 1
Clay Pit 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
P2 Gases: Hazardous/Explosive 1
Tailings - Pond 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.