Abandoned mines in Crawford County, Kansas

1. Mine openings

   shafts, adits, air shafts, portals and vertical openings: the ways into underground workings
   146 14.5%
2. Mines and surface workings

   labelled mines, open pits, strip mines, placer and hydraulic workings
   232 23.0%
3. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits

   construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
   16 1.6%
4. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob

   what mining left above ground
   295 29.3%
5. Mills, tipples and facilities

   processing plants and hazardous structures
   3 0.3%
6. Other reclamation problems

   highwalls, subsidence, polluted or clogged water, fires, slides and gases in OSMRE's inventory
   315 31.3%

…and 468 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. Bone Creek Mine

   Surface coal · Alliance Resources Corp · MSHA ID 1401330
   Abandoned and Sealed 1983-12-20
2. Croweburg Mine No 1

   Surface coal · Alternate Fuels Inc · MSHA ID 1401228
   Abandoned 1995-02-16
3. Farlington No 4

   Surface metal/non-metal · Midwest Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 1400858
   Abandoned 1985-07-11
4. Golden Eagle Strip

   Surface coal · Fuel Dynamics Inc · MSHA ID 1401248
   Abandoned 1981-07-09
5. Inter-Chem No 1

   Surface coal · Inter-Chem Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1401513
   Abandoned 1988-04-27
6. Iron Horse

   Surface coal · Bills Coal Company Inc · MSHA ID 1401427
   Abandoned and Sealed 1985-12-05
7. Mine #22

   Surface coal · Clemens Coal Company · MSHA ID 1400235
   Abandoned 1999-07-26
8. Mission Clay Pits

   Surface metal/non-metal · Mission Clay Products Corp · MSHA ID 1400227
   Abandoned 1994-09-21
9. MULBERRY LIMESTONE #1

   Surface metal/non-metal · Mulberry Limestone Quarry Company · MSHA ID 1401549
   Abandoned 2015-08-30
10. No 25 Strip

    Surface coal · Clemens Coal Company · MSHA ID 1400236
    Abandoned 1979-10-01
11. Pittsburg #5

    Surface metal/non-metal · Midwest Minerals Inc · MSHA ID 1401378
    Abandoned 1985-07-11
12. Portable Plant #1

    Surface metal/non-metal · Cornejo & Sons LLC · MSHA ID 1401462
    Abandoned 2023-08-22
13. Price Clay Pit No 2

    Surface metal/non-metal · W S Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company · MSHA ID 1400684
    Abandoned 1980-12-13
14. Radell Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · W S Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company · MSHA ID 1400225
    Abandoned 1986-06-20
15. Santa Fe No 1

    Surface coal · Quality Coal Inc · MSHA ID 1401511
    Abandoned 1992-07-31
16. Simone Pit

    Surface metal/non-metal · W S Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company · MSHA ID 1401102
    Abandoned 1986-06-20
17. Terre Clay Company Incorporated

    Surface metal/non-metal · Terre Clay Company Inc · MSHA ID 1401532
    Abandoned 1992-09-25
18. W S Dickey Clay Plant

    Facility metal/non-metal · W S Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company · MSHA ID 1401098
    Abandoned 1982-05-21

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

• Cherokee County 567
• Ellis County 295
• Lincoln County 195
• Bourbon County 148
• Osage County 142
• Rush County 139
• Russell County 138
• Cowley County 121
• Butler County 115
• Lane County 102
• Ness County 95
• Jewell County 84

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.