Abandoned mines in Vigo County, Indiana

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   190 36.2%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   140 26.7%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   22 4.2%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   73 13.9%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   13 2.5%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   87 16.6%

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.

…and 158 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.

1. Bell Aggregates & Trucking

   Surface metal/non-metal · Bell Aggregates & Trucking · MSHA ID 1202067
   Abandoned 2008-05-29
2. Blackhawk No 7 Strip

   Surface coal · Great Lakes Coal Company · MSHA ID 1201771
   Abandoned 1981-11-16
3. Brust Mine

   Surface coal · Jae-Eff Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1201875
   Abandoned 1982-01-01
4. C S Sand & Gravel Incorporated

   Surface metal/non-metal · C S Sand & Gravel Inc · MSHA ID 1202164
   Abandoned 1995-08-28
5. Callisto Coal Preparation Plant

   Facility coal · Koester Mining Corp · MSHA ID 1201902
   Abandoned 1985-11-26
6. Coal Creek Mine

   Underground coal · Midwest Mining Company Llc · MSHA ID 1202285
   Abandoned 2011-10-05
7. Collie Pond Co

   Facility coal · Collie Coal Co Inc · MSHA ID 1202226
   Abandoned 2019-04-16
8. Dennis Trucking Co Inc - Plant No 2

   Surface metal/non-metal · Dennis Trucking Co Inc · MSHA ID 1202335
   Abandoned 2006-11-15
9. Farmersburg Mine

   Surface coal · Peabody Midwest Mining, LLC · MSHA ID 1202174
   Abandoned 2015-01-29
10. G & S Strip No 1

    Surface coal · G & S Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201457
    Abandoned 1980-09-12
11. Hidden Lake Strip

    Surface coal · Crowley Coal & Associates · MSHA ID 1201460
    Abandoned 1977-07-19
12. Keller

    Surface coal · J H & L Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201422
    Abandoned 1985-01-11
13. Kerns Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · S&G Excavating, Inc. · MSHA ID 1202455
    Abandoned 2025-09-02
14. Key West #1

    Surface coal · Key West Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201891
    Abandoned 1992-01-10
15. Lewis Mine

    Surface coal · Solar Sources Inc · MSHA ID 1202234
    Abandoned 2015-03-24
16. Lewis Surface

    Surface coal · Peabody Coal Company · MSHA ID 1201600
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
17. Lord'S Pit #10

    Surface coal · R & R Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1202012
    Abandoned 1993-11-15
18. No 1 Mine

    Underground coal · Mt Pleasant Mining Corp · MSHA ID 1200315
    Abandoned 1975-01-30
19. No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · T L & H Inc · MSHA ID 1201564
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
20. P.B. INC. MORRIS PIT

    Surface metal/non-metal · P B Inc · MSHA ID 1202288
    Abandoned 2001-09-17
21. Pit #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · S & G Excavating Inc · MSHA ID 1202048
    Abandoned 1990-05-16
22. PLANT #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Dennis Trucking Company Inc · MSHA ID 1202068
    Abandoned 2002-09-03
23. Pyramid Gravel Company

    Surface metal/non-metal · Pyramid Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1201785
    Abandoned 1985-09-05
24. Quinn Sand & Gravel Pit & Mill

    Surface metal/non-metal · Quinn Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1200740
    Abandoned 1979-04-18
25. Ray No 1 Strip

    Surface coal · Garrett Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201675
    Abandoned 1980-01-30
26. S & G EXCAVATING

    Surface metal/non-metal · Vigo County Commissioners · MSHA ID 1202216
    Abandoned 2000-04-07
27. SUMMERLOT & SONS, INC.

    Surface metal/non-metal · Summerlot & Sons Inc · MSHA ID 1202051
    Abandoned 2002-09-06
28. TERRE HAUTE SAND

    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 1200708
    Abandoned 1999-03-15
29. Vigo

    Facility coal · Vigo County Synfuel LLC. · MSHA ID 1202319
    Abandoned 2007-12-24
30. Whitlock Gravel Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · Vigo County Highway Department · MSHA ID 1202163
    Abandoned 1994-06-27
31. Wny #1

    Surface coal · Whole Nine Yards Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1201931
    Abandoned 1987-01-27

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
• 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
• St. Joseph County 72

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.