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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Monroe County, Indiana

Monroe County, Indiana has 69 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1908–1998. MSHA's register carries 23 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Monroe 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)
69
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
23
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits7 quadrangle maps, published 1908–1998 0 MSHA mines abandoned and sealed
What the features are
  1. Mines and surface workings
    labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
    21 30.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    48 69.6%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned23 on register
  1. B.G. Hoadley Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Crider & Crider Inc · MSHA ID 1202481
    Abandoned
  2. Big Creek L.L.C.
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big Creek LLC · MSHA ID 1202341
    Abandoned
  3. Blessinger Mine
    Surface coal · United Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 1201971
    Abandoned
  4. Bloomington Crown Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group, Inc. · MSHA ID 1202245
    Abandoned
  5. Bloomington Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group Inc · MSHA ID 1200010
    Abandoned
  6. BTI Crushed Stone Sales LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · BTI Crushed Stone Sales LLC · MSHA ID 1202357
    Abandoned
  7. Central Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · IN Limestone Co · MSHA ID 1200094
    Abandoned
  8. Crown Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Indiana Limestone Company Incorporated · MSHA ID 1202052
    Abandoned
  9. D & R CRUSHED STONE
    Surface metal/non-metal · D & R Crushed Stone · MSHA ID 1202088
    Abandoned
  10. Ellettsville Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hanson Aggregates Midwest, Inc. · MSHA ID 1202338
    Abandoned
  11. Elliott Shawnee Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Elliott Mineral Extraction Inc · MSHA ID 1202475
    Abandoned
  12. HOOSIER CALCIUM CORP.
    Underground metal/non-metal · Hoosier Calcium Corp · MSHA ID 1201757
    Abandoned
  13. HUNTER VALLEY QUARRY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Star Quarry Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201980
    Abandoned
  14. Indiana Quarries & Carvers
    Surface metal/non-metal · Indiana Quarries & Carvers LLC · MSHA ID 1202454
    Abandoned
  15. Indiana Quarries & Carvers South
    Surface metal/non-metal · Indiana Quarries & Carvers LLC · MSHA ID 1202280
    Abandoned
  16. Maple Hill Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B G Hoadley Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1201039
    Abandoned
  17. MONROE SOUTH
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group Inc · MSHA ID 1202213
    Abandoned
  18. National Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Indiana Limestone Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201336
    Abandoned
  19. Smith'S Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bybee Stone Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201795
    Abandoned
  20. Stinesville Facility
    Surface metal/non-metal · American Limestone LLC · MSHA ID 1202347
    Abandoned
  21. U M I #7
    Surface coal · Fortune Contracting Inc · MSHA ID 1202130
    Abandoned
  22. Valley Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · B G Hoadley Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1201534
    Abandoned
  23. Victor Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rogers Group Inc · MSHA ID 1202439
    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
Quarry 23
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 19
Quarry 11
Quarry - Limestone 8
Quarry - Limestone 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Disturbed Surface 1
Gravel Pit 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 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.