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Abandoned mine inventory

Abandoned mines in Sedgwick County, Kansas

Sedgwick County, Kansas has 78 mine and prospect features on USGS topographic maps published 1955–1982. MSHA's register carries 26 mines in the county with status Abandoned or Abandoned and Sealed.

Every mine and prospect feature the USGS digitized from historical topographic maps covering Sedgwick 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)
78
Mine openings
0
OSMRE problems unreclaimed
0
MSHA mines marked abandoned
26
0 features carry a name0 prospect pits13 quadrangle maps, published 1955–1982 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
    12 15.4%
  2. Quarries, gravel and borrow pits
    construction-material and industrial-mineral extraction
    65 83.3%
  3. Dumps, tailings, spoil and gob
    what mining left above ground
    1 1.3%
MSHA-registered mines with status Abandoned26 on register
  1. 63rd Street Sand Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · L A Knebler Construction Company Inc · MSHA ID 1401430
    Abandoned
  2. Associated Material & Supply Co Inc Plan
    Surface metal/non-metal · Associated Material & Supply Company Inc · MSHA ID 1400460
    Abandoned
  3. BENTLEY SAND CO
    Surface metal/non-metal · Wolfe Inc · MSHA ID 1400754
    Abandoned
  4. Bentley Sand Co. LLC
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bentley Sand Co. LLC · MSHA ID 1401713
    Abandoned
  5. Big River Sand & Gravel Pit
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big River Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 1400558
    Abandoned
  6. Big River Sand Co #4
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big River Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 1400547
    Abandoned
  7. Big River Sand Pit #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big River Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 1400550
    Abandoned
  8. Big River Sand Pit No 1
    Surface metal/non-metal · Big River Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 1400521
    Abandoned
  9. Central Sand Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Central Sand Inc · MSHA ID 1401286
    Abandoned
  10. Cumley Sand Company
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cumley Sand Company · MSHA ID 1401139
    Abandoned
  11. Derby Sand Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Derby Sand Inc · MSHA ID 1401153
    Abandoned
  12. Drysandco
    Surface metal/non-metal · Drysandco Sand & Maintenance · MSHA ID 1401633
    Abandoned
  13. Durler Ranch Quarry
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bob Bergkamp Construction Co. Inc. · MSHA ID 1401812
    Abandoned
  14. Grove
    Surface metal/non-metal · Midwest Minerals · MSHA ID 1401539
    Abandoned
  15. Keeler Pit And Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Walt Keeler Company Inc · MSHA ID 1400878
    Abandoned
  16. KEELER SAND PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Ritchie Sand Inc · MSHA ID 1401417
    Abandoned
  17. Kingsbury
    Surface metal/non-metal · Cornejo & Sons LLC · MSHA ID 1400624
    Abandoned
  18. Martin Central Sand Company Inc
    Surface metal/non-metal · Martin Central Sand Company Inc · MSHA ID 1401574
    Abandoned
  19. Miles Sand Incorporated
    Surface metal/non-metal · Miles Sand Inc · MSHA ID 1400512
    Abandoned
  20. Mills Sand
    Surface metal/non-metal · Mills Sand Company · MSHA ID 1401435
    Abandoned
  21. MT. HOPE PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Associated Material & Supply Company Inc · MSHA ID 1401585
    Abandoned
  22. Portable #3
    Surface metal/non-metal · Bob Bergkamp Construction Co Inc · MSHA ID 1401838
    Abandoned
  23. R A RUUD & SON PIT #2
    Surface metal/non-metal · R A Ruud & Son Inc · MSHA ID 1401312
    Abandoned
  24. VIC'S SAND PIT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Vic'S Sand & Gravel Company · MSHA ID 1400483
    Abandoned
  25. West Robbins Sand Plant
    Surface metal/non-metal · Dolese Brothers Company · MSHA ID 1400477
    Abandoned
  26. WICHITA SAND PLANT
    Surface metal/non-metal · Apac-Kansas Inc Shears Division · MSHA ID 1401377
    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
Sand Pit 51
Sand Pit 12
Disturbed Surface - Pit 10
Disturbed Surface 2
Gravel Pit 1
Mine Dump 1
Gravel/Borrow Pit - Undifferentiated 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.