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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Butler County, Kansas

Butler County, Kansas has 115 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1983. MSHA's register carries 16 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Butler 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)
115
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
16
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits22 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1983 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
    11 9.6%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    104 90.4%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned16 on register
  1. 54 Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · George M Myers Inc · MSHA ID 1400127
    Abandoned
  2. Allison Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · George M Myers Inc · MSHA ID 1401199
    Abandoned
  3. Augusta Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cornejo & Sons LLC · MSHA ID 1400126
    Abandoned
  4. C K ENTERPRISES
    Surface metal/non-metal · C K Enterprises · MSHA ID 1401602
    Abandoned
  5. Cameron Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · L A Knebler & Son Rock Company Inc · MSHA ID 1401310
    Abandoned
  6. Central Paving Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Paving Inc · MSHA ID 1401620
    Abandoned
  7. Douglas Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Rock Company · MSHA ID 1400830
    Abandoned
  8. Harshman-Butler Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Harshman Construction L L C · MSHA ID 1401335
    Abandoned
  9. Keestrack/Jaw CRU050
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bob Bergkamp Construction Co., Inc. · MSHA ID 1401772
    Abandoned
  10. Knebler Quarry And Mill
    Surface metal/non-metal · L A Knebler & Son Rock Company Inc · MSHA ID 1401121
    Abandoned
  11. Mauck Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Donald G Mauck Excavating · MSHA ID 1400157
    Abandoned
  12. Plant 8
    Surface metal/non-metal · South West Butler Quarry LLC · MSHA ID 1401805
    Abandoned
  13. Portable #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bob Bergkamp Construction · MSHA ID 1401829
    Abandoned
  14. PORTABLE #1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 1401467
    Abandoned
  15. Portable #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Diamond Lime LLC · MSHA ID 1401722
    Abandoned
  16. Towanda Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Quality Rock Company · MSHA ID 1401294
    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
Gravel Pit 58
Gravel Pit 21
Quarry 16
Disturbed Surface - Pit 10
Quarry 9
Disturbed Surface 1
Other counties in KansasAll counties →
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.