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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Morgan County, Indiana

Morgan County, Indiana has 21 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1998. MSHA's register carries 21 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Morgan 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)
21
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
21
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits5 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1998 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
    3 14.3%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    18 85.7%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned21 on register
  1. Aggregate Resources-Waverly
    Surface metal/non-metal · Aggregate Resources Inc · MSHA ID 1202350
    Abandoned
  2. Brooklyn
    Surface metal/non-metal · General Shale Products Corp · MSHA ID 1201172
    Abandoned
  3. Cardinal Clay Products (Mill)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cardinal Clay Products Inc · MSHA ID 1200238
    Abandoned
  4. Cox Plant 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cox Materials Inc · MSHA ID 1202266
    Abandoned
  5. Eagle Materials
    Surface metal/non-metal · Eagle Materials · MSHA ID 1202482
    Abandoned
  6. EDWARDS
    Surface metal/non-metal · USB INDIANA, LLC · MSHA ID 1200341
    Abandoned
  7. FIVE POINTS SAND & GRAVEL
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 1202248
    Abandoned
  8. Hill #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoosier Aggregate Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201463
    Abandoned
  9. Hoosier Aggregate Company Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoosier Aggregate Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201024
    Abandoned
  10. Hopkins Gravel Sand and Concrete Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hopkins Gravel Sand and Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 1201022
    Abandoned
  11. J.W. JONES COMPANY
    Surface metal/non-metal · J. W. JONES COMPANY LLC · MSHA ID 1202221
    Abandoned
  12. L&L Bulk Plant 3
    Surface metal/non-metal · L&L Bulk Transport, Inc. · MSHA ID 1202237
    Abandoned
  13. Martinsville Aggregate Dredge & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martinsville Aggregate · MSHA ID 1201419
    Abandoned
  14. Morgan County Gravel Pit & Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · Morgan County Highway Department · MSHA ID 1200710
    Abandoned
  15. MRI Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martinsville Rockmakers, Inc. · MSHA ID 1202026
    Abandoned
  16. MRI Sand & Gravel
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martinsville Rockmakers Inc · MSHA ID 1202340
    Abandoned
  17. Port Royal
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hoosier Aggregate Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201726
    Abandoned
  18. Porter Cave Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · John Jones · MSHA ID 1200138
    Abandoned
  19. Rieth-Riley Mtrls-Div/Rieth-Riley Const
    Surface metal/non-metal · Rieth-Riley Mtrls-Div/Rieth-Riley Const Co Inc · MSHA ID 1202276
    Abandoned
  20. WAP COMPANY
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wap Company · MSHA ID 1202072
    Abandoned
  21. Waverly- Mann Rd
    Surface metal/non-metal · VCNA Prairie LLC · MSHA ID 1202269
    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
Clay Pit 6
Gravel Pit 6
Disturbed Surface 3
Gravel Pit 3
Quarry 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Shale Pit 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.