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Abandoned mines in Greene County, Indiana

Greene County, Indiana has 194 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1938–1986, including 38 mine openings (shafts, adits and air shafts). OSMRE's abandoned mine land inventory lists 351 problems in the county, 57 of them not yet reclaimed. MSHA's register carries 52 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Greene 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)
194
Mine openings
38
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
57
MSHA mines marked abandoned
52
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits10 quadrangle maps, published 1938–1986 351 OSMRE problems, 294 reclaimed 6 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
    234 42.9%
  2. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    139 25.5%
  3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    1 0.2%
  4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    54 9.9%
  5. Mills, tipples and facilities
    processing plants and hazardous structures
    6 1.1%
  6. Other reclamation problems
    highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
    111 20.4%
OSMRE abandoned mine land problems351 on inventory
Problem area Problem Status
12th St Se P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
12th St Se P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
4th Street Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
4th Street Sw Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
4th Street Sw Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
500 North Ditch P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial Reclamation Completed
500 North Ditch P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
500 North Ditch P3 Water Problems Reclamation Completed
A.b.c. Coal P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
A.b.c. Coal P3 Gobs Reclamation Pending
A.b.c. Coal P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Pending
A.b.c. Coal P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Agnes Miller Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Allen Subsidence P2 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Anderson Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Andrew Bright Openings P2 Subsidence Reclamation Pending
Arizona #1 P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Ashton Subsidence P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Ashton Subsidence P3 Slump Reclamation Completed
Astleford Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Back West P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Barkley Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Baseline Road P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Bedwell Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bedwell Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bedwell Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bennett #1 P2 Dangerous Highwalls In Reclamation
Bennett #2 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bennett #2 P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bennett South P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Best Grades Pit #1 P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Best Grades Pit #1 P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Best Grades Pit #1 P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Bethel P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Bethel P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Bethel P3 Slurry Reclamation Completed
Bethel P3 Water Problems Reclamation Completed
Bethell Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bill Maden Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Bill Maden Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bill Mattox Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Black Creek Road P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities Reclamation Completed
Black Creek Road P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Blaine Lannan Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bland Slurry P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Bland Slurry P3 High Wall Reclamation Completed
Bland Slurry P3 Slurry Reclamation Completed
Bland Slurry P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Boltenwood Golf Course Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Boltenwood Golf Course Subsidence # P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Bolton Road P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Bolton Road P3 Pits Reclamation Completed
Booher P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Booher Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Booker Subsidences P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Brenda Booher P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Brett Hobbs P2 Subsidence In Reclamation
Brumfiel Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Pending
Burns Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
C Street Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Carla North Subsidences P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Castle Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cletus Padgett P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cooksey - Dangerous Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Cooksey Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
County Road 1175 Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cox Drive P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Coyne Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cr 100s Grouting P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cr 1100 West Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cr 1100 West Subsidence #2 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cr 1100 West Subsidence #3 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cr 1100w Grouting P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cr 1600w South Grouting P1 Subsidence Reclamation Completed
Cramer Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cullison P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Cullison Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dale/floyd Vertical Openings P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dale/floyd Vertical Openings P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Dickason Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Don Rogers P2 Portals Reclamation Pending
Eagle Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Earl - Vertical Openings P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Earle Emergency P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Earle Emergency #2 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Earle Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Earle Subsidence #3 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Eccles Shaft P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Eichhorst Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ellis Subsidences P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ellis Water North P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ellis Water Subsidences P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Faidherbe Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Ferree Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Fir Lake P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Flynn Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Friar Tuck Ii - Big Bertha P2 Clogged Streams Reclamation Completed
Friar Tuck Ii - Big Bertha P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments Reclamation Completed
Friar Tuck Ii - Big Bertha P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Friar Tuck Ii - Big Bertha P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Friar Tuck Ii - Big Bertha P3 Haul Road Reclamation Completed
Friar Tuck Ii - Big Bertha P3 Mine Opening Reclamation Completed
Friar Tuck Ii - Big Bertha P3 Slurry Reclamation Completed
Friar Tuck Ii - Big Bertha P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Fry Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Fulford Subsidences P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
German Highwall P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
Gilmour P3 Gobs Reclamation Completed
Glenburn Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Glenburn Waste Pile P2 Industrial/Residential Waste Reclamation Completed
Goodman P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments In Reclamation
Goodman #2 Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Grand Blvd. Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Grand Blvd. Subsidence P3 Equipment Facility Reclamation Completed
Graniti Borehole P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Green Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Green Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Greene Creek #3 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #1 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #10 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #11 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #12 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #13 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #14 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #15 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #16 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #17 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #18 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #2 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #3 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #4 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #5 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #6 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream #7 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene Stream No. 1 P3 Water Problems Reclamation Pending
Greene-sullivan Se P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Guardrail - Sunset Park Entrance P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Completed
H Street Sw Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Halstead Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Harry Bedwell Opening P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hash Subsidence #1 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hash Subsidence #2 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hash Subsidence #3 P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Haussin Subsidence P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hawthorn P2 Dangerous Highwalls Reclamation Pending
Hawthorne Slurry Pit P3 Slurry Reclamation Completed
Hawthorne Slurry Pit P3 Spoil Area Reclamation Completed
Hazlewood Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Heaton Subsidences P2 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed
Hillbilly Acres Subsidence P1 Vertical Openings Reclamation Completed

…and 201 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 Abandoned52 on register
  1. 4th Vein Mine
    Underground coal · Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1201712
    Abandoned and Sealed
  2. Atlas #1
    Surface coal · Laswell Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201964
    Abandoned
  3. Atlas 1
    Surface coal · Laswell Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202000
    Abandoned
  4. Auger #1
    Surface coal · Coal Auger Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202146
    Abandoned
  5. Auger #1
    Surface coal · Black Hawk Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1202162
    Abandoned
  6. Black Creek Mine
    Surface coal · Rogers Group Inc · MSHA ID 1202082
    Abandoned
  7. Blanca #1
    Surface coal · Contract Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1201936
    Abandoned
  8. Blanca Mine
    Surface coal · B & Ls Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 1201811
    Abandoned
  9. Bloomfield Sand & Stone
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bloomfield Sand & Stone · MSHA ID 1200626
    Abandoned
  10. Bredwig Mine Strip
    Surface coal · Vigo Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201722
    Abandoned
  11. Castle Hill Pit #2
    Surface coal · C C M Inc · MSHA ID 1201908
    Abandoned
  12. Castle Knoll Prep
    Facility coal · Fossil Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 1201853
    Abandoned
  13. Central Coal
    coal · Central Disposal Inc · MSHA ID 1201962
    Abandoned
  14. Coal Inc
    Underground coal · Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1202169
    Abandoned and Sealed
  15. Comet Coal Sales
    Facility coal · Comet Coal Sales Inc · MSHA ID 1201950
    Abandoned
  16. Cousins Pit No 1 (Strip)
    Surface coal · Cousins Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201665
    Abandoned
  17. Flynn Mine
    Surface coal · Northern Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1200300
    Abandoned
  18. Flynn Prep-Plant
    Facility coal · Northern Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202056
    Abandoned
  19. Gold Star Mine
    Facility coal · ERC Mining Indiana Corp · MSHA ID 1202431
    Abandoned and Sealed
  20. GREENE COUNTY PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group Inc · MSHA ID 1200892
    Abandoned
  21. Hawthorn Mine
    Surface coal · Peabody Coal Company · MSHA ID 1200326
    Abandoned and Sealed
  22. Hays Mine
    Surface coal · B & P Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 1202046
    Abandoned
  23. Hogue No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Garrett Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201689
    Abandoned
  24. J H & L No 1 Strip Mine
    Surface coal · J H & L Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1200896
    Abandoned
  25. Jasonville Shop
    Facility coal · Peabody Coal Company · MSHA ID 1200324
    Abandoned
  26. Koleen Strip Mine
    Surface coal · Best Grade Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201175
    Abandoned
  27. Latta
    Surface coal · Peabody Coal Company · MSHA ID 1200325
    Abandoned
  28. Linton Mine No 1 Strip
    Surface coal · Abbott Coal & Energy Company · MSHA ID 1201725
    Abandoned
  29. Linton Pit #2
    Surface coal · Great Lakes Coal Company · MSHA ID 1201855
    Abandoned
  30. Lyons
    Surface coal · Danny Jasper Inc · MSHA ID 1202112
    Abandoned
  31. LYONS MINE
    Surface coal · Triad Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1202268
    Abandoned
  32. Midland
    Surface coal · Marks Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202080
    Abandoned
  33. Midwest Fuels Inc #1
    Underground coal · Midwest Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 1202180
    Abandoned and Sealed
  34. Midwest Fuels Inc Preparation Plant
    Facility coal · Midwest Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 1202177
    Abandoned
  35. Miller Creek Mine
    Surface coal · Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 1201974
    Abandoned
  36. Miller Preparation Plant
    Facility coal · Peabody Coal Company · MSHA ID 1200455
    Abandoned
  37. Newberry Mine
    Surface coal · Triad Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1202299
    Abandoned
  38. NEWBERRY PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Webster Excavating · MSHA ID 1202289
    Abandoned
  39. Owen Mine
    Surface coal · Northern Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202122
    Abandoned
  40. Owen Mine
    Surface coal · J L S Inc · MSHA ID 1202155
    Abandoned
  41. Owensburg Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group Inc · MSHA ID 1201841
    Abandoned
  42. Pit #One
    Surface coal · Indiana Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1202120
    Abandoned
  43. Redbird
    Underground coal · Laswell Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201975
    Abandoned and Sealed
  44. Sams Mine
    Underground coal · Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1201579
    Abandoned
  45. Scaffold Prairie
    Surface coal · Desert Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1202036
    Abandoned
  46. Scaffold Prairie Prep-Plant
    Facility coal · Northern Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202055
    Abandoned
  47. Scotland Mine
    Surface coal · Jasper & Jasper Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202013
    Abandoned
  48. Switz City
    Facility coal · Triad Mining LLC · MSHA ID 1202097
    Abandoned
  49. Switz City Mine
    Surface coal · Ayrshire Land Company · MSHA ID 1202062
    Abandoned
  50. Tiger Mine
    Surface coal · B & Ls Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 1202006
    Abandoned
  51. Uland Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Junction Limestone Inc · MSHA ID 1202209
    Abandoned
  52. White Oak Prep-Plant
    Facility coal · Northern Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202057
    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
P2 Vertical Openings 110
Strip Mine 97
P1 Vertical Openings 81
P2 Dangerous Highwalls 30
P3 Water Problems 29
P3 Gobs 22
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 20
Adit 20
Mine Shaft 18
Mine Dump 14
P3 Spoil Area 11
Coal Mine 10
P1 Subsidence 10
Strip Mine 9
P3 Equipment Facility 8
P2 Dangerous Piles & Embankments 7
P3 Slurry 6
P3 Slump 5
P2 Portals 5
P2 Hazardous Equip & Facilities 4
P3 Industrial/Residential Waste 4
P2 Subsidence 3
P3 Pits 2
Tipple 2
P1 Dangerous Slides 2
P1 Dangerous Highwalls 2
Disturbed Surface 2
P3 High Wall 2
P2 Clogged Streams 2
P2 Industrial/Residential Waste 1
Clay Pit 1
P3 Haul Road 1
Open Pit Mine 1
P1 Clogged Streams 1
P3 Mine Opening 1
P2 Hazardous Water Bodies 1
P2 Polluted Water: Agricultural & Industrial 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.