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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Douglas County, Kansas

Douglas County, Kansas has 40 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1949–1983. MSHA's register carries 18 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Douglas 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)
40
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
18
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits11 quadrangle maps, published 1949–1983 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
    19 47.5%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    21 52.5%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned18 on register
  1. Buchheim Quarry No 69
    Surface metal/non-metal · N R Hamm Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 1401239
    Abandoned
  2. Eudora Quary (23)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Killough Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1401426
    Abandoned
  3. Fast Pak Portable
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hunt Martin Materials L.L.C. · MSHA ID 1401629
    Abandoned
  4. Flory Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta-Basic Products Aggregate Div · MSHA ID 1400839
    Abandoned
  5. Globe Quarry (7)
    Surface metal/non-metal · Killough Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1400809
    Abandoned
  6. Harrell Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · N R Hamm Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 1401126
    Abandoned
  7. Lake View Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lawrence Sand Company · MSHA ID 1401305
    Abandoned
  8. Lawrence Dredge
    Surface metal/non-metal · Lrm Industries Inc · MSHA ID 1400426
    Abandoned
  9. Lawrence Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hunt Midwest Mining Div Of KS · MSHA ID 1401525
    Abandoned
  10. Lawrence Quarry And Mill No 16
    Surface metal/non-metal · Killough Quarries Inc · MSHA ID 1401087
    Abandoned
  11. Lothholz Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 1400837
    Abandoned
  12. Mitchell Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Marietta Aggregates · MSHA ID 1401091
    Abandoned
  13. Penny'S Concrete Inc Schaake'S Division
    Surface metal/non-metal · Penny'S Concrete Inc · MSHA ID 1401589
    Abandoned
  14. Petefish Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · N R Hamm Quarry Inc · MSHA ID 1401148
    Abandoned
  15. Peterson Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Reno Construction Company · MSHA ID 1401236
    Abandoned
  16. PLANT # 2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hunt Midwest Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1401576
    Abandoned
  17. PLANT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hunt Midwest Mining Inc · MSHA ID 1401459
    Abandoned
  18. Plant #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Hunt Midwest Mining Inc-Div Of Kansas · MSHA ID 1401510
    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
Disturbed Surface - Pit 14
Quarry 13
Quarry 7
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 4
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 1
Open Pit Mine or Quarry 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.