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Abandoned mines in Clay County, Indiana

Clay County, Indiana has 323 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1908–1986, including 47 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts); 1 of the features carry a name on the map. OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 425 problems in the county, 64 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 47 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Clay 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)
323
Mine openings
47
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
64
MSHA mines marked abandoned
47
1 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1908–1986 425 OSMRE problems, 361 reclaimed 1 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
    274 36.6%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    211 28.2%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    1 0.1%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    115 15.4%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    5 0.7%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    142 19.0%
Named features on the maps1 named · from the USGS compilation
Name on map Feature
Loading Tipple Tipple

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 problems425 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
Alexander Subsidences P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Alexander Subsidences P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Alum Cave P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Alum Cave P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Alum Cave P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Andrews P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Asbury Church P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ashboro P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Ashboro #2 P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Asherville Highwall Slump #2 P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Asherville Slump P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Assembly Of God Church Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Atlas Powder Co. P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Atlas Powder Co. P3 Slurry Reclamation Completed
Atlas Powder Co. P3 Water Problems Reclamation Completed
Ballard Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Baysinger Subsidences P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Benton Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Benton Subsidence #2 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Benton Subsidence #2 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Benton Subsidence #3 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bess Subsidences P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bickel P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Big Ben #2 P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Birch #1 P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Birch #1 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bogle Corner P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Bogle Corner P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bogle Corner P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Completed
Bogle Corner P3 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Bogle Corner #2 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bonnie Brook P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bonnie Brook P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Booe Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bowman Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bowman Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bowman/mckinney Subsidences P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Boyce / Muncie P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Boyce / Muncie P2 Vertical Openings In Reclamation
Boyce / Muncie P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bradbury Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bradley Miller Passive Treatment P3 Water Problems In Reclamation
Bradshaw P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Brazil Airport P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Brian/laura Wright Opening P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Brown P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Brown P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Brown Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Buchanan Corner P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Buckland Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Buell Subsidences - Strc&d P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Burch - Vertical Opening P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Burch - Vertical Opening P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Burger Subsidence #2 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cap P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Carbon Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cardonia P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Pending
Cardonia #2 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cardonia #3 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cardonia Grouting P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Carter Cemetery P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Carter Cemetery P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Completed
Carter Cemetery P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Casassa Dairy Farm P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Casassa Farm Opening - Strc&d P3 Other Reclamation Completed
Centerpoint Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Centerpoint Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Central Trucking P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Charles Emery Opening P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Chatman Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Chicago P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Chicago P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Completed
Chinook P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Chinook P1 Surface Burning Reclamation Completed
Chinook P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Chinook P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Chinook P3 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Chinook P3 Slurry Reclamation Completed
Chinook #2 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Completed
Chinook #3 P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Christ Community Church Subsidence P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Church Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Clark Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Clark Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Clay County 100s Guardrail P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Clay Stream #10 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Clay Stream #11 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Clay Stream #12 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Clay Stream #7 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Clay Stream #8 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Clay Stream #9 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Clay Stream No. 6 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Clay Stream No.1 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Clay Stream No.2 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Clay Stream No.3 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Clay Stream No.4 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Clay Stream No.5 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Climax Mine P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Coal P2 Portals Reclamation Completed
Coal P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Coalmont Subsidence - Grouting P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cobb Subsidences P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cooksey Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cory-staunton Vertical Opening P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cottrell Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
County Road 300 E Guardrail P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Cr 100 East Slope Failure P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Cr 100e Grouting P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cr 1200n Vo P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cr 200 East Slope Failure P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Cr 200 East Slope Failure P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Cr 600 N Slope Failure P1 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Cr 650 South - Vertical Opening P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cr 675 West Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cr 675 West Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cr 750 N Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cr 750 North Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
CR 750N Grouting P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cr 800 N Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Crawford #12 P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Crawford #14 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Crawford #14 P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Dale Martin - Strc&d P3 Water Problems Reclamation Completed
Dan Tucker Highwall - Strc&d P3 High Wall Reclamation Completed
David Barr Sags #2 - Strc&d P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Dean Cress Subsidence - Strc&d P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dean Hyatt/charles Crowe - Strc&d P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Dean Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dean Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dellacca P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Derr Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Deschamp - Vertical Opening P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dierdorf Shaft P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dietz Recreation Park, Inc. P2 Dangerous Impoundments Reclamation Completed
Doyle Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
E And E P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Ed Ruhe P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ed Ruhe, Bob Romas & Earl Hutchinse P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ellis / Burger Subsidence P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Ellis / Burger Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ellis / Burger Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ellis Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ellis Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ellis Subsidence #2 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Everett Woll - Strc&d P3 Slurry Reclamation Completed
Everett Woll Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Fisher P3 Pits Reclamation Pending
Fisher P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
Fisher On P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Fisher Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed

…and 275 more problems not listed here.

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 Abandoned47 on register
  1. 3117
    Surface coal · Black Hawk Mining, Inc. · MSHA ID 1519505
    Abandoned
  2. Ace In The Hole
    Surface coal · Sunrise Coal, LLC. · MSHA ID 1202460
    Abandoned
  3. Ashboro North Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Log Cabin Coal Company · MSHA ID 1200263
    Abandoned
  4. Auger #1
    Surface coal · Black Hawk Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1202188
    Abandoned
  5. Ax Mines (Strip)
    Surface coal · Ax Mines Inc · MSHA ID 1201754
    Abandoned
  6. Beech Mine
    Surface coal · Beech Coal Company · MSHA ID 1201991
    Abandoned
  7. Bickel No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · G S & B Coal Supply Inc · MSHA ID 1201728
    Abandoned
  8. Birdsong Strip
    Surface coal · Gatewood Mining Company · MSHA ID 1201526
    Abandoned
  9. Blanton No 2 Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Blanton Coal Company · MSHA ID 1200454
    Abandoned
  10. Brazil Mine Saline No 1
    Surface coal · Brazil Coal & Clay Corp · MSHA ID 1201400
    Abandoned
  11. BRC Chinook LLC
    Surface coal · BRC Chinook LLC · MSHA ID 1202397
    Abandoned
  12. Brick Craft, LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Carr & Thomas Const Inc · MSHA ID 1202386
    Abandoned
  13. Brimar Mine
    Surface coal · Little Sandy Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202160
    Abandoned
  14. Carbon Pit
    Surface coal · Sun Mining Company · MSHA ID 1201723
    Abandoned
  15. Cardonia Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Log Cabin Coal Company · MSHA ID 1200262
    Abandoned
  16. Clay City Mine
    Surface coal · Associates Mining Company · MSHA ID 1201903
    Abandoned
  17. Clayvigo No. 1 Mine
    Surface coal · RLF Chinook Properties, LLC · MSHA ID 1200322
    Abandoned
  18. Conti #16
    Surface coal · Continental Augering Inc · MSHA ID 1202153
    Abandoned
  19. Dierdorf Mine (Strip)
    Surface coal · Courtney Excavating Company · MSHA ID 1201769
    Abandoned
  20. Dierdorf Strip
    Surface coal · Dierdorf Coal Company · MSHA ID 1200293
    Abandoned
  21. E And E Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Log Cabin Coal Company · MSHA ID 1201159
    Abandoned
  22. Eel Mine
    Surface coal · Black Beauty Coal Company · MSHA ID 1202096
    Abandoned
  23. Eel River Mine
    Surface coal · Coal Power Inc · MSHA ID 1201969
    Abandoned
  24. Frontier #1
    Surface coal · Frontier Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202136
    Abandoned
  25. Frontier #3
    Surface coal · Frontier Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202128
    Abandoned
  26. Harmony No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Brazil Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 1201456
    Abandoned
  27. Hendricks #5
    Surface coal · Hesco Inc · MSHA ID 1201849
    Abandoned
  28. Hoosierville
    Surface coal · Marks Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202078
    Abandoned
  29. Howesville Mine
    Facility coal · Sunrise Coal LLC · MSHA ID 1202354
    Abandoned and Sealed
  30. J C # 2 Mine
    Underground coal · Jarvis Coal LLC · MSHA ID 1202458
    Abandoned
  31. Lap Corner Mine
    Surface coal · Marks Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202016
    Abandoned
  32. Logan Clay And Shale Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Logan Clay Products Company · MSHA ID 1201075
    Abandoned
  33. Lords Pit No 11
    Surface coal · R & R Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1202092
    Abandoned
  34. Marion Brick Clay And Shale Plant
    Facility metal/non-metal · Marion Brick Corp · MSHA ID 1201082
    Abandoned
  35. Martz Mine
    Surface coal · Triad Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1202300
    Abandoned
  36. Miller Creek Mine-Jenlin Pit
    Surface coal · Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 1202294
    Abandoned
  37. Mustang Mine
    Surface coal · White Stallion Coal, LLC · MSHA ID 1202456
    Abandoned
  38. Old Hickory Tipple
    Facility coal · Log Cabin Coal Company · MSHA ID 1201814
    Abandoned
  39. Pit #3
    Surface coal · Trousdale Enterprises Inc · MSHA ID 1201940
    Abandoned
  40. Rio Grande
    Surface coal · United Minerals Company Llc · MSHA ID 1202008
    Abandoned
  41. Rock Run
    Surface coal · Northern Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202106
    Abandoned
  42. S & G Excavating Inc Pit #3
    Surface coal · S & G Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 1201636
    Abandoned
  43. Sugar Ridge Mine
    Surface coal · B & Ls Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 1202131
    Abandoned
  44. Turner Mine-Strip
    Surface coal · Delta Materials Corp · MSHA ID 1201073
    Abandoned
  45. West Strip
    Surface coal · West Coal Company · MSHA ID 1200897
    Abandoned
  46. White Oak Mine
    Surface coal · Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 1201863
    Abandoned
  47. Wolfe Pit
    Surface coal · Marks Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202079
    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
Strip Mine 179
P2 Vertical Openings 142
P1 Vertical Openings 77
Mine Dump 62
Mine Shaft 42
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 33
P3 Gobs 30
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 23
P3 Water Problems 20
P3 Spoil Area 19
P3 Slump 12
P3 Equipment Facility 12
P1 Subsidence 9
P2 Portals 8
P3 Industrial/Residential Waste 7
P3 Pits 7
P2 Subsidence 7
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 7
Strip Mine 6
Adit 5
P3 Slurry 5
P2 Clogged Stream Lands 4
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 4
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 3
P2 Dangerous Impoundments 3
P3 Mine Opening 3
P3 High Wall 3
P3 Haul Road 3
P3 Other 2
Tipple 2
Open Pit Mine 2
P1 Surface Burning 2
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
P1 Hazardous Water Bodies 1
P2 Dangerous Slides 1
P1 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
Disturbed Surface 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.