Abandoned mines in Parke County, Indiana

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   34 28.1%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   22 18.2%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   32 26.4%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   14 11.6%
5. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   19 15.7%

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.

1. Dee Clay Products Mine

   Surface metal/non-metal · Dee Clay Products Company Inc · MSHA ID 1200244
   Abandoned 1982-12-09
2. Equipment #1

   Surface metal/non-metal · D.N.R. LLC · MSHA ID 1202432
   Abandoned 2010-03-24
3. MANSFIELD STONE INC.

   Surface metal/non-metal · Mansfield Stone Inc · MSHA ID 1202277
   Abandoned 2004-07-22
4. Parke County Pit

   Surface metal/non-metal · Parke County Highway Department · MSHA ID 1200993
   Abandoned 2019-03-04
5. Parke West Materials

   Surface metal/non-metal · Parke West Materials · MSHA ID 1200771
   Abandoned 1989-01-23
6. Rainbow Mine

   Surface coal · Mc Cawith Energy Inc · MSHA ID 1202219
   Abandoned 2003-04-08
7. Roaring Creek Surface

   Surface coal · Roaring Creek Mining Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201655
   Abandoned 1980-09-12

Status and date are as reported to MSHA by the operator. Each mine's own page carries its accident, citation and inspection record.

• Clay County 323
• Sullivan County 260
• Vigo County 217
• Greene County 194
• Lawrence County 132
• Pike County 122
• Elkhart County 92
• Warrick County 88
• Steuben County 79
• Knox County 78
• Spencer County 74
• Kosciusko County 73

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.